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Not sure what the discovery is. Haven't social sites been doing this since the beginning? Reddit was. Not too dissimilar from those IP ads from like two decades
by infecto 2y ago
Not sure what the discovery is. Haven't social sites been doing this since the beginning? Reddit was. Not too dissimilar from those IP ads from like two decades ago, "Jane Doe is ready to meet you in Centralville, Wyoming".
- seabass-labrax 2y agoObligatory xkcd :) https://xkcd.com/713/ https://xkcd.com/713/
- PaulHoule 2y agoMy DSL tunnels through an ATM network, I think, and comes out in Norwich, NY which is about an hour's drive away. I am always getting ads about "Drivers with a perfect record in Norwich can...", "Grannies want to jump your bone in Norwich", "They hate it when seniors in Norwich do this but they can't stop you", etc. The only services which geolocate correctly for my house are Apple's. When I got to NYC on the other hand and attach to public WiFi often those localized ads are spot on to within a block.
- tlb 2y agoSome of Reddit's early users were sock puppet accounts run by the founders, which are different than bots. The sock puppet accounts were, in fact, interesting to engage with since they were run by interesting & literate people. Since presumably a conversation is what you came for, you got what you wanted. Quite different from talking to a bot on a dating site where you came to initiate an IRL interaction which could never happen.