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Phones are good at hiding your personal info from apps and your personal info is basically not valuable anyway. This is a conspiracy theory because the idea you
by astrange 3y ago
Phones are good at hiding your personal info from apps and your personal info is basically not valuable anyway. This is a conspiracy theory because the idea your data is worth something makes people feel good about themselves.
- api 3y agoIsn’t targeted advertising how social media makes money? Your data isn’t valuable because your life is special and interesting. It’s valuable because it helps micro-target ads at you.
- astrange 3y agoWhen Facebook ads are good, it's because people are paying to show the ad specifically to you. (Like when you put something in your cart on a web store, don't check out, and then ads follow you around everywhere telling you to go finish buying the thing.) That's not really demographics-based though, it's explicitly tracking you as a person. Otherwise I'm not impressed. I don't try and hide myself from Facebook/Twitter much, but the first keeps trying to sell me Viagra and shirts for fat guys and the second thinks I'm every kind of doctor at the same time.