Like why do they care how many times I go to porn hub every day or that nothing gets me harder than a free use MILF? Why do they care that I don’t know how to spell consistency so I have to Google it every 3 months.
What the fuck is wrong with people?
How much do FANG companies pay for such posts? I’m interested in making a career.
Fun story: me and my wife kept talking about our nasty neighbour we call “the slug” and she got “Slug removal tips” on her YouTube suggestions.
The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood
You know how they use facial recognition to kill people in the middle east? It’s the same idea here.
It is not about having your particular data. Is about the aggregated data of the population. On a shallow level that information can be used to engineer ads to appeal to a grater audience. On a deeper level, population dynamics can be used for nefarious purposes such as driving them to an agreement that wasn’t in their best interest. Brexit and thr Trump election are two examples of this thanks to data from Cambridge Analytica. See voting paradoxes and Asimov’s psychohistory that each day is getting farther from fictional.
Not to dispute your general points, but Cambridge Analytica’s actual effectiveness was shown to have been way overblown (as was RussiaGate in general).
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Oh, so evil shit.
It’s just sureal to me. Since they know I was up till 2:00am on a Wednesday wrenching my hog like there was a million dollars hidden inside Donald Trump was elected president.
okay wrenching my hog is a new one lmao
Yep, I only knew wrestle the chicken yet.
Basically knowledge of us is power over us.
Absolute poetry.
We’ve waited all this time to tell you. Unfortunately, we have run out of time. The reason you’re so interesting is
Sonofa
It builds pattersns for you and people like you.
Dynamic demographic catagories
You are now, at in part, a “free use MILF guy” in their database, so they can now shaped content for you based on other “free use milf guys” who may have more actionable info like “buys guns” or “clicks ads with light hues”.
Or mine, “has only ever clicked an ad by accident and immediately closed it every time, we’ll keep trying I guess. Oh fuck, he got uBlock.”
Pixar seeing a rise in milf web searches: Ok boys it’s time to release another movie with a mom who has a dump truck ass.
Dump-truck-ass Pixar Moms are my kryptonite.
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Other companies are willing to pay big money for your data so they can specifically target people who are likely to buy their shit. Also, now the government is buying that data so that they can unconstitutionally keep tabs on every person in the world.
Also political organizations want this data to help them target potential voters more effectively.
Pick up habits, profiling so they can know what you are interested in and the areas you frequent to target you more efficiently. More likely for directed advertising but can also be for influencing.
Couldn’t they just like, ask?
@Daft_ish Why go through the trouble of asking you when they can ask your browser who will tell them everything instantly and also knows you better than you ever will?
I assume because they have to pay for that shit
@Daft_ish If they are the ones who supplied your browser, they don’t have to pay shit.
Some one has to pay. Facebook ain’t making money selling me facebook.
@Daft_ish Facebook’s making money selling *you* on Facebook. You are the raw material.
But like I’m saying. If you’re buying me on Facebook you’re going to be way disappointed.
No. You’ll tell them what you like, but you might not tell them what you can’t look away from.
The latter is more useful for manipulating you into buying stuff or just spending more time on their platforms.
The influencing aspect here is almost certainly tied into the drop of search engine efficacy recently. Big tech finally collected enough data from you and everyone you know to now be able to alter what answer you find for the question you asked. Wildly, this same question now generates different results depending on the profile they’ve assigned you. MullVads Total Surveillance paper published last October highlights this explicitly. This is why data collection matters, not due to ads, but the ability of Big Tech to change how you view the world. Your data impacts the search results you see, as well as everyone similar to you…
Edit: Here’s the link to the MullVad paper https://mullvad.net/pdfs/Total_surveillance.pdf
The simple answer: the more they know about you the more money they can make by selling it.
this article has some insights on the value topic.
this Reddit post also has some good information regarding this subject.
Lastly, this scandal
I hope this helps, please feel to correct me if I’ve misunderstood something.
individually, not important, together with a mass of collected data, over time, patterns emerge, those patterns can be everything from people, and people within your demographic, age, sex, location, race, education level, marital status, relationship status, and THAT is invaluable to corporations (and governments) in figuring out what to sell, how to sell it, and who to sell it to.
they say knowledge is power, and that’s just what all this data from billions of different sources gives others, an overview of human interaction with each other, technology, and most importantly the things that motivate them to act.
Why are tech company’s
They’re trying to track the patterns of people who attempt to pluralise words by using apostrophes. It’s funded by linguists studying language change.
Better watch out, they also go after people use “s” instead of “z” in “pluralize”.
You’re not safe either, I heard they’re also after people who forget to use the word “who”.
Mother fuck!
Mother who fuck?
You mean, mother fuck whom
Zhit!
Because digital advertising dollars has been in a bubble since click-through ads and for some reason nobody has noticed.
Q: “Why are companies …”
A: Money.
Every time. Sometimes also some competitive advantage or image or by mistake, but even those are just money with extra steps.
