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Why are Laserlike's ad targeting algorithms better than Facebook? The alternative to Facebook is not a smaller younger Facebook, it's open protocols. If you wa
by JetSpiegel 8y ago
Why are Laserlike's ad targeting algorithms better than Facebook? The alternative to Facebook is not a smaller younger Facebook, it's open protocols.
If you want to send all your browser history into a black box and get recomendations on what to read use Chrome.
- acdha 8y agoThink about what you're describing: if the goal is to offer a new UI feature and see how users react, do you a) spend years standardizing a new protocol or b) use a single source to try it immediately while you independently explore the long-term options?
- JetSpiegel 8y agoThe goal of that private company is take history data, aggregate it and sell it to the highest bidder. The "recommendations" are ads. Ads are not "features", so they will never be protocols. Otherwise they would be a news aggregator, and so competing with Huffington Post or the zillion others.