Hey chapos. I'm a longtime lurker and I should start off by saying I appreciate you all a lot.
I've considered calling suicide prevention before, but I've never done it, partly out of fear that I would get targeted ads for the rest of my life about depression, etc., and that' s really upsetting to me. Is there a clever way to contact mental health resources which avoids that issue, at least at the surface level?
As in, I don't care if the most dedicated NSA operative ever could find this out about me, only that it isn't super publicly traded information about my health between corporations, if that makes sense. Thanks
here's what you do.
Open an incognito window. Search for the depression hotline. Copy the number manually, do not click the link to call Enter it by hand.
this should prevent ad serving, as long as you don't give out other info.
Isn't that pretty open to browser fingerprinting?
A little, though if you have even modestly common software no ad company is going to bother with that depth of tracking for remarketing purposes. No money in it.
Security companies or election targeting etc not so much.