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I would tend to assume suicide is fairly predictable with high sensitivity and the data many corporations have from surveillance of customers tbh.

anonymouse008 5y ago
Let's just say I get really concerned about my fairly stable, committed household when I get therapy and dating app ads...
- motohagiography 5y ago
  Given ads are necessarily both targeted and predatory, and a not a few of them are planted as part of sophisticated political campaigns and operations, someone in your house probably just triggered a link on their trapline. Ads for therapy are to stoke fears of people they may be mentally ill, and ads for dating sites are to make people feel isolated. They're just used as priming for selling you an additional something else to relieve the feelings the primers created. If I wanted you to look at my ad, I'd present something you would look away from, and have my product ad right there waiting for where you will likely look to. Look at the difference between ads in the margin of pages, vs. those inline to the content.
- LorenPechtel 5y ago
  The targeting isn't all that good. We note the dramatic hits, we don't note the far larger number of misses. I used to get a lot of dating and foreign-matchmaking ads stemming from the fact I like chess. Never mind that I have been off the market since before there was a www.
  - spywaregorilla 5y ago
    > I used to get a lot of dating and foreign-matchmaking ads stemming from the fact I like chess. How would you know this?
    - LorenPechtel 5y ago
      Because the site had nothing but my age and the fact that it was a chess site to go on. The ads did not show any of the targeting you typically see.
mensetmanusman 5y ago
That’s an interesting take, I wonder which company, Google or FB, has better predictors? Surely they have enough data to actually have the best predictors when compared to academics looking at monthly statistics.

anonymouse008 5y ago

Let's just say I get really concerned about my fairly stable, committed household when I get therapy and dating app ads...

motohagiography 5y ago
Given ads are necessarily both targeted and predatory, and a not a few of them are planted as part of sophisticated political campaigns and operations, someone in your house probably just triggered a link on their trapline. Ads for therapy are to stoke fears of people they may be mentally ill, and ads for dating sites are to make people feel isolated. They're just used as priming for selling you an additional something else to relieve the feelings the primers created. If I wanted you to look at my ad, I'd present something you would look away from, and have my product ad right there waiting for where you will likely look to. Look at the difference between ads in the margin of pages, vs. those inline to the content.
LorenPechtel 5y ago
The targeting isn't all that good. We note the dramatic hits, we don't note the far larger number of misses. I used to get a lot of dating and foreign-matchmaking ads stemming from the fact I like chess. Never mind that I have been off the market since before there was a www.
- spywaregorilla 5y ago
  > I used to get a lot of dating and foreign-matchmaking ads stemming from the fact I like chess. How would you know this?
  - LorenPechtel 5y ago
    Because the site had nothing but my age and the fact that it was a chess site to go on. The ads did not show any of the targeting you typically see.

mensetmanusman 5y ago

That’s an interesting take, I wonder which company, Google or FB, has better predictors? Surely they have enough data to actually have the best predictors when compared to academics looking at monthly statistics.