I still get recommended tampons because my ex-gf bought some with my Amazon account 5+ years ago. Peak recommendation brilliance.

I still get ads on Youtube on my TV, and it’s mindboggling how bad they are. Google literally has years of my search history (before I switched to DDG), and it still doesn’t understand that I’m vegan and not interested in any products that are not vegan. Putting on my tinfoil hat, I think it’s just a massive data collection ruse masked as “personalized ads”.

This was on https://www.openstreetmap.org/

I zoomed in to my local area and typed pizza in the search box. A place with Pizza in the name was at the center of my screen. The search took me to a city in another continent called Pizza.

Contributions from users are wasted if the final UX is so poorly designed.

Technically, there’s Gemini (protocol) and Gopher as alternatives to the usual web stack, but they’re still pretty niche in usage.