Can I reduce the number of ads that I get on different internet sites, eg Faceb

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- September 10, 2020 at 12:32 pm #4038
  
  David Harrison
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  Unfortunately not really. Both rely on advertisements for their income streams and whilst you can change the type of adverts you see (on Facebook) and it has an algorithm which attempts (often very badly) to show you adverts it thinks are relevant to you – you can’t stop them.
  
  As for Amazon, it’s just a brand marketing platform and there’s no explicit advertising that you can block. Again, over time it learns what you’re interested in and sends you emails. You can block these, but you can’t change the format, other than by changing the way the sort option displays them, of those goods
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