2 ms·
I know a guy who worked on scanning SMS messages for keywords to do marketing with. They had some huge telecoms they worked with. This was also a long time ago
by withinboredom 3y ago
I know a guy who worked on scanning SMS messages for keywords to do marketing with. They had some huge telecoms they worked with.
This was also a long time ago. Terrifying stuff; who knows what they do these days.
- mschuster91 3y agoThey cooperate with providers and act as a middleman between them and advertising buyers... visit a site of a cooperation partner of utiq (e.g. Süddeutsche Zeitung) on a phone and a banner of them pops up. Probably kicks in once the tracker sees you're coming from a network range that matches a phone ISP. [1] https://utiq.com/ https://utiq.com/
- quantified 3y agoFacebook suggests friending people that I've only texted with and are only a couple thousand miles away. Definitely still happening at least.
- ben_w 3y agoFacebook suggests friending someone I worked with at once place 18 years ago and never spoke to or messaged since, and they show me adverts for both breast enlargements and erectile disfunction, and for hyper-local events in countries I don't live in and for people with citizenships I don't have. They might have just guessed.