Yacine: recommendation hit him with no cookies, just age and gender
yacineMTB · x · 2026-10-04
Yacine MTB discusses how unnervingly accurate recommendations can be even with script blockers and a private DNS server — he hadn't browsed the web on his personal account for weeks, so no cookies were involved. He concludes platforms likely only needed his age and gender to target him. In a follow-up he calls the experience "extremely unnerving," noting the targeted person could have been a teenager, and that he's a dad.
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