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Facebook to stop targeting ads based on race, sexual orientation, and politics
- OneTimePetes 5y agoFOR querytopic race LINK TO FILTER META_SUB_QUERY music, location, politics, slangdetect.
- freddealmeida 5y agobut meta wont. much like the statements on facerec
- Richard_Kayala 5y agoAwesome, would love to stop getting ads asking if I need an abortion. I'm a guy.
- sneak 5y agoIt's very easy, just delete your Facebook, Instagram, and Oculus accounts.
- BizarroLand 5y agoEveryone should at least run ublock origin and occasionally clear your cookies/history, and possibly also run a pihole on their home networks.
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- LurkingPenguin 5y agoEven better news: in the Metaverse, race, sexual orientation and politics themselves will be banned. All will merge into the singularity that is The Zuck.
- timoth3y 5y agoThe article says they are removing specific targeting options. However, Lookalike Audiences will, of course, continue to be fully supported. Advertisers get effectively the same targeting, but with improved plausible deniability for Facebook.
- thinkingemote 5y agoGeodemographics at the very least can be a decent proxy for race and politics. Add some basic interests and activities and you've got more refinement. One need only say "we want to target people in this area of the city" or "we want to target people who like The Telegraph magazine" now combine them, etc etc. It's not the same but it's very close. The difference is that advertisers can't explicitly target these groups which seems good. I wonder if religion and other less geographically constraints attributes will also be excluded?
- hulitu 5y agoThis is the best joke i've ever seen.