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> Beyond targeted drug advertisement, medical devices, and the like, you know which people are sedentary, which play sports, who probably smokes, and I'd bet go
by obmelvin 7y ago
> Beyond targeted drug advertisement, medical devices, and the like, you know which people are sedentary, which play sports, who probably smokes, and I'd bet good money there are correlations between certain conditions and shopping habits, religious preference, and even political preferences.
Well, I can tell you that Google's advertising profile for me would already have a pretty good idea for all of those attributes you listed based on my search history, location history, google maps usage, youtube usage, etc.
The healthcare market is an ~8.5 Trillion market globally [1]. Advertising is ~ 1 trillion [2,3]. I admit that I don't know the exact quality of the data cited in these - but they do clearly demonstrate that healthcare is a huge industry. Given that Google wants another profit source besides advertising I think it just conspiratorial to suggest they would throw away the medical opportunity for some marginal advertising gains. Dragonfly leaked, employees are otherwise frustrated with certain things. If employees are talking about what you say then I'll listen to them. But you are just making senseless accusations.
1 - https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190625005862/en/11.9-Trillion-Global-Healthcare-Market-Key-Opportunities https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190625005862/en/11....
2 - http://towersofzeyron.com/the-advertising-industry-is-now-worth-1-2-trillion-marketing-in-its-various-forms-continues-to-grow-through-mobile-content-marketing-social-platforms-and-new-digital-platforms/ http://towersofzeyron.com/the-advertising-industry-is-now-wo...
3 - https://www.statista.com/topics/990/global-advertising-market/ https://www.statista.com/topics/990/global-advertising-marke...