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How, for example?

• cameronbrown 7y ago
  Most humans are bad at coming up with random data and queries, these things would tend to be obviously unrelated to their actual profile. Not to mention that these "randomisation sessions" are very bursty time-wise if it wasn't being done automatically and continuously.
  • kabacha 7y ago
    As far as I understood OP implied it would be an automated process that already exists: https://adnauseam.io/ https://adnauseam.io/
    • ec109685 7y ago
      See the technique Apple uses to gather aggregate data about their customers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy If this technique became widespread, advertisers could compare users A,B C, and … Z to filter out the “random clicks” (since they would all just as equally click these advertisements). This will leave A’s extra clicks still in the data sets letting the advertiser build a profile for A.
      • kabacha 7y ago
        > to filter out the “random clicks” (since they would all just as equally click these advertisements). I mean sure it _might_ work against something very basic but adnauseam is a bit more advanced than that. I also avoid trusting any marketing lingo as technological solution. The fact is it would be very hard to catch this, even the most basic implementation. Not only that but it's absolutely not worth doing it as huge huge minority of profiles are compromised, we're talking 0.01% of all profiles here.
    • username444 7y ago
      Not exactly this, but yes. Plus, let's go to yellow pages and randint(1,999999) for a business listing and spend some time browsing that. Plus, a random selection of Google trends in various niches. Plus, maybe the best selling items in a few Amazon verticals. Maybe toss in some "how to treat"+ WebMD topics.