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I just ask myself how I, a person who satisfies quite some nerd stereotypes would be classified by these algorithm (in particular for political advertising). S
by wolfgke 8y ago
I just ask myself how I, a person who satisfies quite some nerd stereotypes would be classified by these algorithm (in particular for political advertising).
So for example the small number of categories that Google Ads assigns to me (https://google.com/ads/preferences https://google.com/ads/preferences) are correct - but featureless and quite hard for marketers to target.
- elliekelly 8y agoIt's very likely that you just think they're "featureless and quite hard for marketers to target." For example, this story (from 2012) about Target's ability to predict a woman's pregnancy: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
- icebraining 8y agoOr they got lucky in that case, and we only heard of it because of such luck.
- wolfgke 8y ago> It's very likely that you just think they're "featureless and quite hard for marketers to target." At least of the second part, I am pretty convinced. When I see ads, I always think how wrong and clueless the ad network is again of my true interests.