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Beware of nanozuks!!! Seriously, what is so malicious about delivering ads based on your personal preferences? Do I need to be targeted by ads that the rest of
by AzzieElbab 5y ago
Beware of nanozuks!!! Seriously, what is so malicious about delivering ads based on your personal preferences? Do I need to be targeted by ads that the rest of my demographic prefers?
- reilly3000 5y agoThere are so many ways to abuse micro-targeting. Say hypothetically you’re a private investigator and you have a target that you want to get into their email. You could look at their Facebook page to find their favorite band, food, and travel destination. With that info plus their zip code you could make ads that will just target them personally. Offer free tickets to their favorite band on a landing page with registration, then store their commonly reused password in plain text-done. This type of ‘nano-targeting’ was the strategy that Cambridge Analytica used to discourage millions of Hillary Clinton supporters from voting. Its been used for countless forms of abuse, manipulation, and data gathering, where even impression counts can be revealing, no clicks needed.
- AzzieElbab 5y agoTragic role of Russian nanozucks in 2016 presidential election cannot be overstated. When did we start believing that handing out millions of flyers is the same thing as selling millions of cars?
- vadfa 5y agoDiscouraging someone from voting is now "abuse"?
- kesselvon 5y agoIt's pretty bad to run campaigns that discourage voting. Accepted practice is to encourage to vote for someone, and not discouraging participation completely.