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But is dynamic of google buying up products and making them free or cheaper by subsidizing from search ads(with the goal of making search ads more profitable wi
by liaukovv 6y ago
But is dynamic of google buying up products and making them free or cheaper by subsidizing from search ads(with the goal of making search ads more profitable with additional data from free product) healthy for the market?
- WorldMaker 6y agoEspecially when it is personal health data now at risk of being used to subsidize ads? Advertising is already creepy enough trying to determine when, for instance, someone is pregnant via related purchases (and sometimes guessing correctly ahead of the person's own knowledge, per famous anecdata), just imagine how much more creepy it can get when it is data being sold to advertisers from your own wrist?
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- three_seagrass 6y agoThis acq focus is on devices, not ads. Google already pledged not to use user health data for ads: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-fitbit-m-a-alphabet-eu-exclusive/exclusive-google-offers-data-pledge-in-bid-to-win-eu-okay-for-fitbit-buy-idUSKCN24E2X5 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-fitbit-m-a-alphabet-eu-ex...