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This is not an actionable proposal because there are many ways to target people via direct mailers, locations of billboards, selection of platforms. And in the
by spunker540 9y ago
This is not an actionable proposal because there are many ways to target people via direct mailers, locations of billboards, selection of platforms. And in the end I don’t think people seeing targeted ads is really the crux of the problem. Facebook will still store our data. And fake news will still proliferate via non-ads channels.
Also a lot of people think Facebook makes a lot of money off its data but that’s really far from the truth. Facebooks main innovation was letting other companies leverage their own customer data on the Facebook platform by using cookies to cross-reference. They notice their user ‘123’, who shopped for shoes last week but never bought also had a Facebook cookie indicating how they can advertise directly to that user on the Facebook platform.
That is a wildly more expensive ad and it has nothing to do with facebooks personal data. Facebooks secret weapon is not personal data but rather that 1 billion people log in for a half hour per day allowing 3rd parties to reach many of their customers directly.
- paulie_a 9y ago< direct mailers I'd love for that one to just go away. It's annoying to pick up the mail and just drop everything into the garbage. I actually wish I could unsubscribe from USPS ala that Seinfeld episode
- bbarn 9y agoThe worst part about the USPS is that it occasionally contains incredibly important correspondence. So you can't just bin the whole thing, instead you have to sort through a pile of garbage on the 1% chance something critical is in there.
- jschwartzi 9y agoI wish I could pay someone to do this for me. I hate getting the mail.
- nugi 9y agoThere were services that recieve and scan your mail, I suspect they still exist. I used one about a decade ago. Some po boxes also offer the feature. You still need to pay to fwd things you need in hard copy or pick them up. Grreat while traveling.
- paulie_a 9y agoI havent received anything I would consider critical in the last couple years.