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"OpenAI announced today that users will soon be able to buy products through ChatGPT. The rollout of shopping buttons for AI-powered search queries will come to everyone, whether they are a signed-in user or not. Shoppers will not be able to check out inside of ChatGPT; instead they will be redirected to the merchant’s website to finish the transaction.

In a prelaunch demo for WIRED, Adam Fry, the ChatGPT search product lead at OpenAI, demonstrated how the updated user experience could be used to help people using the tool for product research decide which espresso machine or office chair to buy. The product recommendations shown to prospective shoppers are based on what ChatGPT remembers about a user’s preferences as well as product reviews pulled from across the web."

wired.com/story/openai-adds-sh

WIRED · OpenAI Adds Shopping to ChatGPTBy Reece Rogers
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Faszinierend war – auch für Leute wie mich, die die Geschichte schon kennen – @nohillside s Auflistung der Zusammenhänge zwischen diesen #Cookies, Googles mehrfache Abhängigkeit vom Werbemarkt, den Bemühungen um #Google-Abspaltungen, sowie den Entwicklungen rund um die #KI-Firmen.

#PrivacySandbox #FLoC #Fingerprinting #AdTech
dnip.ch/2025/04/30/aus-mit-dem

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Das Netz ist politisch · Aus mit dem Cookie-Aus - Das Netz ist politischSeit 2019 versuchte Google mit der Privacy Sandbox-Initiative, die Privatsphäre-Bedürfnisse der Benutzer und die wirtschaftlichen Interessen von

I've never enjoyed ads, and the more I think about them, the less I like they way they shift people's focus to unimportant things.
So, here is my opinion essay about why modern advertisements should be reduced, and why we, consumers of ad-infested content, should look for ways to make a change—say, by supporting creators without abusing our attention:

bojidar-bg.dev/blog/2025-04-25

This is post 3 of #100DaysToOffload