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> I personally won't be running these, but I'm curious if others are really comfortable with the idea of uploading their customer lists to Google (or FB or anyo
by magicalist 11y ago
> I personally won't be running these, but I'm curious if others are really comfortable with the idea of uploading their customer lists to Google (or FB or anyone else for that matter) in plaintext vs. going through a neutral middle-man that lets you just provide hashed values to get a match.
according to the linked [1] you only upload hashes of email addresses.
[1] https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/6276125 https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/6276125
- vomitcuddle 11y agonothing stopping them from storing precomputed hashes for every registered gmail address and using them as a lookup table
- eli 11y agoIf you don't want Google matching your customer list to individual gmail accounts for targeting, then this service isn't for you. That's kinda the whole point.
- shostack 11y agoWow, clearly I haven't had enough caffeine yet to even read the support page, thanks for the kind reminder ;)
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoWell, Google still knows your customers, then.