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Once companies gather enough data about you, they begin to fluidly cross the line from providing "better services" into "psychological manipulation". Informati
by iamnothere 7y ago
Once companies gather enough data about you, they begin to fluidly cross the line from providing "better services" into "psychological manipulation".
Informative advertising, better UX, and more desirable features are positives and can be implemented with only a modest amount of data gathering. Intrusive manipulative ads, dark patterns, and addictive "stickiness" are negatives enabled by excessive collection of data.