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What if Google emotionally bribed people? eg "For every month you have targeted ads enabled, we will donate 10 cents to [INSERT CHARITY]."
by Paul-ish 8y ago
What if Google emotionally bribed people? eg "For every month you have targeted ads enabled, we will donate 10 cents to [INSERT CHARITY]."
- dullgiulio 8y agoThey don't have to. The possibility to opt out from tracking have been available for a while, although it was always pretty hidden in the settings. After I opted out, I started seeing awful ads: mostly semi-naked bodies of people claiming to lose weight or bald heads. Of course it's easy for Google to just say that this is what their economically optimized algorythm selects for a perfect stranger, because those are the only advertisers that risk spending ad money on someone they know nothing about. Long story short: it's a sort of bribe already and you cannot prove it is happening.
- Paul-ish 8y agoTurning off the display of personalized ads and turning off data collection are different. Do the setting you are talking about prevent data collection?
- gaius 8y agoI wouldn’t call it bribery - Bing will make a donation if you get enough Bing points. I’ll be generating £3 for the Special Olympics this month (or I could have chosen a £5 voucher in the Microsoft store).