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I'm not condoning this company's actions but since it is almost certainly a completely automated process, how does this differ from, say, gmail reading kids' co
by desu 17y ago
I'm not condoning this company's actions but since it is almost certainly a completely automated process, how does this differ from, say, gmail reading kids' conversations to display ads? Should gmail be restricted from doing such for minors?
How about online communities like Habbo Hotel, et al? Because if they don't collect general marketing information from the activities within their pages, I'll eat my hat.
And how about if the software was free and marked as marketing-supported?
Just food for thought.
- colinplamondon 17y agoTotally and 100% different- we're talking algorithmic analysis versus actually honest to god selling the contents of your email.
- gaius 17y agoOK, but how to develop the algorithms without some representative data? Google just matches ads with keywords, its not particularly clever with semantics - it just knows how often an ad gets clicked.