[–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It does give data to advertisers, but the effect is much more dramatic than you might think. For me, it has completely nuked the advertisers' profile of me to the point that the mail I get is obviously affected too. I was getting normal mail before using, but then for a few years I was getting senior citizen related mail and travel brochures, now I am getting coupons relating to pregnancies and personal injury ads. Recently I have been getting texts from realtors asking if I want to sell "my house". Grain of salt is important, I tend to go to random websites, if you have specific interests and regularly and mostly exclusively go to websites related to them, then this scheme would not work. Simply avoiding the ads in the first place would be superior.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    When the aca was passed, insurance was mandatory. Sorry i forgot that the gop tax bill in 2017 repealed the individual mandate penalty. Some states still do have a penalty for being uninsured.

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  • [+] -13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

    I don't understand this meme. If you have an hmo you're supposed to have a primary care doctor/physician. If you have ppo then sure, it would make no sense to have a primary care since its not required to see a specialist. But if you have insurance and your not well off then it a pcp isnt an issue or you have an hmo.

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