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An arms race like that would be a help for privacy, there is no way of filtering out enough bots without a relatively high false positive rate.
by FloatingVertex 8y ago
An arms race like that would be a help for privacy, there is no way of filtering out enough bots without a relatively high false positive rate.
- Cyphase 8y agoBut "filtering out" would just need to be reducing ad targeting, not suspending the accounts, so some level of false positives might be fine if you can get a low enough false negative rate. The goal of the companies in this hypothetical is to limit systematic statistical detection of ad targeting, not to suspend automated accounts. If a small enough percentage of human users' ads are less/not targeted, no big deal.