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What are the Trekbbs ads trying to sell to you?

LEGO To the moon and beyond
Saks.com Get Personalized Picks (as long as it is women's lingerie, Not my style as I am a man in my late 60s)
ebay Complete your collection (I'd have to start one first)
OREPro PREDICT BLAST MOVEMENT AND UNLOCK GREATER VALUE - ORICA Digital Solutions (I don't need to blow anything up)
 
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My VPN is on, so the ambulance chasing attorneys are gone and replaced by Etsy (Stunning summer finds), ebay (complete your collection) ads (two of each).
 
Knee support braces are all over my ads which is very suspect since I just last week went to the doctors about my knees.

No damage or anything to them got diagnosed with normal degeneration of joints that come with age. Lovely thing to hear at 33 but hey least I havent done anything severe.

Still I'm suspicious someone is spying on me.
 
On the bottom of the page - "Find a medicine drop-off kiosk near you." (I didn't stand in the long line at Walgreens to pick up a filled prescription, just to drop it off in a kiosk, which happens to be right where I picked up the filled prescription.)
On the side of the page - Homebody.com - "Here is the average price of a 6-hour rain gutter upgrade." (My house doesn't have rain gutters - not a lot of rain in Central California)
On the top of the page - "Continue now To Proceed, Continue now" - and with a picture of an elderly couple walking in the left part of a highway traffic lane, with their backs to traffic. (I accidentally hovered the mouse over it too long and my wonky left mouse button selected the page, but my AVG antivirus blocked the page from loading, "Threat Secured. We prevented your connection to artwoodmart.com because it is a dangerous webpage. Threat category: URL:Malvertising)
 
Unfortunately, they are very much of the "do as I say, not as I do" mindset.
You should see the ads on Youtube. Hentai waifus, horny local women waiting for my call (wife would disapprove) and ads that won't shut off and then redirect you for trying to stop them - not to mention the flashing ads which are a danger for people who have a seizure disorder. I finally went to Mozilla Firefox as my laptop browser and installed some script blockers and an ad extension before they stopped. My phone uses Duck Duck Go browser which blocks most ads.

You cannot use the internet in 2025 without script and ad blockers. The only ads I see now on YT are the ones before or during the video added by the channel itself.

 
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