{"id":10323,"date":"2020-12-20T12:26:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T17:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10323"},"modified":"2020-12-20T12:26:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T17:26:33","slug":"what-the-bleeping-devil-is-google-trying-to-sell-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10323","title":{"rendered":"What the bleeping devil is Google trying to sell me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last several days, until I asked Google not to show it anymore, this ad appeared on just about every other Web page that I visited:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10324\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/strange-ad.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/strange-ad.png 575w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/strange-ad-300x250.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As near as I can tell, it is inviting me to visit a clickbait site with some brainless list of &#8220;amazing inventions&#8221;. (Yes, I blurred out the address on purpose, because I have no desire to offer them free publicity.)<\/p>\n<p>But what&#8217;s with this picture? It is&#8230; horrifying to be honest. If it is supposed to be an amazing invention, I wonder if it is an unusually gross sex toy or perhaps some quack medicine device.<\/p>\n<p>Well, whatever it is&#8230; Google, please stop. This thing is&#8230; gross. (The machine-generated human face that seems to hit the bullseye in the middle of the uncanny valley doesn&#8217;t help either.)<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10323' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last several days, until I asked Google not to show it anymore, this ad appeared on just about every other Web page that I visited: As near as I can tell, it is inviting me to visit a clickbait site with some brainless list of &#8220;amazing inventions&#8221;. (Yes, I blurred out the address <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10323' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10326,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10323\/revisions\/10326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}