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Every single advertising company is exploiting every single side channel that they can. This should not surprise you.
by yarg 4y ago
Every single advertising company is exploiting every single side channel that they can.
This should not surprise you.
- zo1 4y agoIt's getting very serious. I created an fresh anon Instagram account using a cellphone number that I used with FB. And voila, someone I know is a recommended for me to follow on Instagram. They have no shame. And no one is holding them accountable even with proof.
- SketchySeaBeast 4y agoFor privacy focused people that's a bad thing, for everyone else that's a feature. You gave meta that phone number, meta is going to use that phone number with all of meta's products. Not saying that's good, just saying that's a thing that makes sense.
- zdragnar 4y agoInstagram and FB are both owned by meta. Is it really any surprise that they share data?
- wereallterrrist 4y agoSure. And in this case, they're showing me irrelevant ads, shopping results I can't use and more. It's not surprising me, it's baffling me because it's just stupid to do this.
- yieldcrv 4y agoIs it? You haven't travelled to a non-English place in ten years to not notice this, and they're just going to be wrong with targeting you for a few weeks.
- jokethrowaway 4y agoLarge rich companies screw up way more than small ones. Nobody cares, the business is making 10x what it would need to survive. Worst case scenario they still have their reputation (I still remember conversations before buying Azure: "it's Microsoft, it can't be that bad"...) A small company either does things right or eventually gets destroyed.
- Gigachad 4y agoWorks for the 99.9% not using a VPN. They don't care about the last few users.
- tech_tuna 4y agoDo no evil RIP.