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Relevant ads outed a gay teen on Facebook: http://unicornbooty.com/blog/2012/01/11/gay-teen-inadvertently-outed-by-facebook-targeted-ads/ http://unicornbooty.co
by drhayes9 15y ago
Relevant ads outed a gay teen on Facebook: http://unicornbooty.com/blog/2012/01/11/gay-teen-inadvertently-outed-by-facebook-targeted-ads/ http://unicornbooty.com/blog/2012/01/11/gay-teen-inadvertent...
Maybe not widespread, but definitely not entirely hypothetical.
- smspence 15y agoI'm not sure what this has to do with my question. What you linked to has nothing to do with either Google or email.
- drhayes9 15y ago>What you are scared of is some hypothetical situation that there so-far is no evidence it could happen Ecio78 outlined a scenario in which relevance targeting "outed" him in a way he didn't want. I'm analogizing Facebook relevance ads with Gmail and search ads. I didn't think Ecio78 was saying that emails are going to pop up explictly, only that Google would present information that is relevant to him in a situation where he didn't want that relevant information.