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> It's all much more pervasive and invisible now, but it's basically what has always been done. Basically is doing a lot of work here, the level and degree of
by piva00 2y ago
> It's all much more pervasive and invisible now, but it's basically what has always been done.
Basically is doing a lot of work here, the level and degree of how much data is vacuumed, processed, and used for targeting nowadays is orders of magnitude of difference from these primitive ways.
A tent and a house are basically the same: a shelter.
- SoftTalker 2y agoRight, the pervasivenes today is much higher. But marketers/advertisers have always hoovered up and exploited as much information as was technically possible. That attitude isn't new.
- autoexec 2y agoAnother thing that is absolutely new is the vast number of people using this data for things other than ads/marketing. The data on registration cards was never used to decide if you get a job or not, or how much you pay for a hotel room vs the next person, or how long you wait on hold when you call a customer service line, or how much your insurance rates go up, or whether or not you're a suspect in a criminal investigation, or if you get custody of your child in a divorce proceeding. The amount of things our data ends up being used for is on a scale that simply was not possible when people started filling out product registration forms.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoFor better or worse, those use cases are at least somewhat legitimate. Marketing is purely malicious.