>>> all I get are some personalised ads.
It’s hard to notice because the effects are insidious and very slow.
What does happen is they sell your data to companies or foreign governments that have absolutely zero interest in you or your families welfare and use it to craft policy to further entrench themselves.
If you are waiting for evidence that is extremely black and white and personalized like an attack that simply is not gonna happen.
Take tiktok for example
Tiktok gathers data on US demographics to steer discussion and politics or sow discourse. Watching tiktok videos you probably aren’t thinking, wow China really wants to see the west fall. Only if you understand their foreign policy would you connect the dots. rest assured they are using everything available to them to do so.