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> makes me wonder if people in a Starbucks get ads intended profiled against other customers) unlikey, at your home location, usually it is just the same few
by senorjazz 8y ago
> makes me wonder if people in a Starbucks get ads intended profiled against other customers)
unlikey, at your home location, usually it is just the same few people all the time.
At a coffee shop there might a couple of the same people every time, but also lots of other random people. So would be easy to ID home location / office location / public space location.
Or perhaps they know the location is a coffee shop from their facebook location ID.
but they will know somehow
- sten 8y agoTwo ways I'm aware of. If your time at the coffee shop is regular (arrive at 3:15 because that's when your break is from work) they can place you with other regulars (you go there with your wife every day after work, you get dark roast and she gets a tea). Second if you're a black hole of privacy features and everyone else around you is not... well you get identified that way. Like herd immunity there is a risk if your behavior makes you an outlier. Imagine for a moment though that they can't serve you ads directly. I wonder if anyone has done research into saturating adds in a coffee shop for all the patrons? Everyone sees the same add for the Dallas Cowboys and triggers a conversation about football. Now you didn't see the add but everyone around you is talking about football.