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Do you think anyone cares in the slightest about your 'personal data'? It's garbage and no one would waste energy for it, if it weren't for the ability to serv
by user34283 11mo ago
Do you think anyone cares in the slightest about your 'personal data'?
It's garbage and no one would waste energy for it, if it weren't for the ability to serve more effective advertisements.
If I'm going to offer an application monetized with Ads, I'm going to use a big ad network like Google which requires cookies to personalize the ads and prevent fraud. I could not care less about collecting your personal data.
And that's probably the same for 99% of websites.
- s1mplicissimus 11mo ago> It's garbage and no one would waste energy for it, if it weren't for the ability to serve more effective advertisements. Advertisements, among other things, for political views, influencing voter behavior. Which lots of interest groups care about
- zelphirkalt 11mo agoWell, without any personal data, FB/Meta and Google would have nothing. Their whole business model is selling the idea, that they are able to advertise better, due to them knowing things about people and their preferences or interests. Obviously you need to consider what happens in the large.
- rapnie 11mo agoA blog writer who injects ads cares in an analogy similar to how a low-level street dealer cares about pushing to clients. It provides the income. Further up the chain it goes much further than just ads, up to state actors who try to influence elections all across the globe, based on such data. And with AI a new Wild West wide open to explore.
- user34283 11mo agoSelling drugs causes harm. Targeting political ads? Debatable - whether AI is somehow involved or not.
- 1718627440 11mo agoI would consider making people to vote for a criminal dictator to be more harmful than selling drugs, the former is destroying way more lives than the latter. And I am someone who would vote for more enforcement and regulation of bans on drugs.
- user34283 11mo agoNo matter your political opinions, the ability to target political advertisements hardly seems like the nightmare you all act like it was. Multiple people keep talking about selling hard drugs in the comments. Seems a tad dramatic.
- zelphirkalt 11mo agoShowing ads (not necessarily political ads) can be harmful. Very easy example is of course ads for gambling sites.