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I personally don't care. My location data is anonimized anyway. And there are sensible reasons for why advertisers can target audiences by region/location. No a

I personally don't care. My location data is anonimized anyway. And there are sensible reasons for why advertisers can target audiences by region/location. No advertiser can identify me personally. And if I must be shown ads, I choose relevant ads to the nonsense I saw 20 years ago (flashy banners saying I won $1M).

deostroll 6y ago
It is easy to scapegoat privacy here. The case would more likely be we have signed up to some online service and information got leaked. Why else would a Nigerian prince be interested in you?
Hnrobert42 6y ago
It is very much not anonymized. It is trivially easy (albeit not cheap - around $10k/month) to buy access to mobile ad id data, draw a polygon around your house, and get all the “anonymous” ids. From there, you can see all other locations of those ids. When they anonymize you, that just means they give you an is not linked to your phone number or account. It doesn’t mean someone can’t link it for you. The best defense to this is to reset your ad id regularly. Or on iPhones, turn off ad personalization. I don’t know about Android.
- aminozuur 6y ago
  Google does not sell my data.
  - Hnrobert42 6y ago
    No, but third party apps do.
  - srtjstjsj 6y ago
    Targeting filters can be used to reverse engineer your data.
  - beervirus 6y ago
    But they do turn it over to the government.
secondcoming 6y ago
> No advertiser can identify me personally Right now, all iOS and Android phones assign you an id for advertisers. iOS is planning to get rid of this. So, while advertisers may not know (and really don't care about) your real name, they can build quite a profile of you.
- aminozuur 6y ago
  I don't mind them having an anonymous profile (ID) on me. In fact, if it helps the platform and allows for more relevant ads, I'm all for it.
dylkil 6y ago
What we are told is happening: We are collecting your information to show you relevant ads :) Whats actually happening: https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview

deostroll 6y ago

It is easy to scapegoat privacy here. The case would more likely be we have signed up to some online service and information got leaked. Why else would a Nigerian prince be interested in you?

Hnrobert42 6y ago

It is very much not anonymized. It is trivially easy (albeit not cheap - around $10k/month) to buy access to mobile ad id data, draw a polygon around your house, and get all the “anonymous” ids. From there, you can see all other locations of those ids. When they anonymize you, that just means they give you an is not linked to your phone number or account. It doesn’t mean someone can’t link it for you. The best defense to this is to reset your ad id regularly. Or on iPhones, turn off ad personalization. I don’t know about Android.

aminozuur 6y ago
Google does not sell my data.
- Hnrobert42 6y ago
  No, but third party apps do.
- srtjstjsj 6y ago
  Targeting filters can be used to reverse engineer your data.
- beervirus 6y ago
  But they do turn it over to the government.

secondcoming 6y ago

> No advertiser can identify me personally Right now, all iOS and Android phones assign you an id for advertisers. iOS is planning to get rid of this. So, while advertisers may not know (and really don't care about) your real name, they can build quite a profile of you.

aminozuur 6y ago
I don't mind them having an anonymous profile (ID) on me. In fact, if it helps the platform and allows for more relevant ads, I'm all for it.

dylkil 6y ago

What we are told is happening: We are collecting your information to show you relevant ads :) Whats actually happening: https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview