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>the list of an individual user’s idiosyncratic sub-Reddit subscriptions is nothing if not a precise psychographic profile of his interests. Not to mention vot
by pervycreeper 11y ago
>the list of an individual user’s idiosyncratic sub-Reddit subscriptions is nothing if not a precise psychographic profile of his interests.
Not to mention voting habits, which specify a user's tastes much more finely. The value of that information is potentially astronomical. More honest and finely grained info than facebook likes could be, for instance, similarly for ad tracking. Also reaches some hard to target demos.
- 36erhefg 11y agoSpeaking of voting. I cannot find any terms of service for hacker news when you create an account. Can our information legally sold to advertisers?
- icebraining 11y agoIANAL, but I'd say they can't sell the comments - they're copyrighted, and since they don't ask for an explicit license, the implied one is probably limited to displaying them on the site - but they could sell the votes/flags/karma information.
- tdylan 11y agoYC has little (to nothing) to gain by selling HN info, but everything to lose.