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> but at least they won’t happily sell it on the street corner. what do you imagine targetted advertising is? they will sell everything they know about you to
by sgjohnson 4y ago
> but at least they won’t happily sell it on the street corner.
what do you imagine targetted advertising is? they will sell everything they know about you to basically anyone willing to pay in the form of "I'd like to target these particular audiences in my ad campaign", and then when you get conversions from that particular campaign, it's not exactly rocket science to dereference the click to a particular individual, provided that there's a conversion.
and if you're a bit more nefarious than that, you don't even need a conversion.
- kube-system 4y agoYeah, I understand the privacy concerns with targeted advertising, and agree that it is a concern, but it’s once-removed from the type of data you can get from a dedicated data broker. At a data broker you can simply ask for the data you want and they’ll directly provide it. If Google is a chartered fishing expedition, a data broker is a fish market.
- robertlagrant 4y ago> it's not exactly rocket science to dereference the click to a particular individual How?