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Looking at my data, it's so so so tempting to opt-out, but then again I'd rather see targeted ads than 'one crazy trick to get rid of my belly fat' ones....

• jjoonathan 13y ago
  This. I'd rather watch an engineer take a minute to sweat through his memorized lines about X company's latest chips in heavily accented English than spend 15 seconds watching the usual amalgamation of meaningless statements, slick graphics, and lowest-common-denominator jokes. Say what you will about the creepyness of automatic profiling, but in my experience it has made some significant progress towards advancing advertising from a necessary evil to a genuine value-add.
  • maqr 13y ago
    > I'd rather watch an engineer take a minute to sweat through his memorized lines about X company's latest chips Is that actually the kind of ads you see? I've been using AdBlock since forever, but I assumed all the ads were flashy commercials for everyone. Maybe my friends without AdBlock are just boring.
    • emhart 13y ago
      Likely true re: your friends. Most people's friends are. I know the ad he's referring to, and have enjoyed it enough that I've let it play through more than once rather than skip it.
• mthoms 13y ago
  Care to share what kind of info they had and how accurate it was generally?
  • nsxwolf 13y ago
    Mine was pretty bad. They had some very basic pieces of public information wrong. This is clearly not the same data I had when I used their web service at a startup I worked at in 2000. They had a service you could provide a phone number to and it would return a little story like this: "Bob Smith from Portland, Oregon uses in-home pregnancy tests, drinks imported beer, and listens to alternative rock radio stations." None of those sorts of rich details are in my data.
  • GabrielF00 13y ago
    They have a total of 2 online purchases for me. One is in "art and antiques" and the other is in "bedding linens" I don't recall purchasing anything in either of those categories online. They don't have my current address (I moved about 2 months ago). They don't have my education level quite right. The information they have on my income is current, and I assume they got it from a credit card application.
• sbecker 13y ago
  I'd rather not see any ads or be tracked at all. Don't bother opting out via their cookie. Use an Ad Blocker.