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by lotu 8y ago
I’ve had discussions with people working in ads at Google that are basically, “so GDPR is the EU’s attempt to kill off all our competition and presently entrench us in the marketplace.”
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by lotu 8y ago
So much so, I wish more languages would adopt it.
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by lotu 8y ago
While I sometimes feel a lot of these things, I don't think you are diagnosing the cause correctly. I don't see how the fact that we have a single dominate social networks, and search engine are the cause. I can't imagine h
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by lotu 8y ago
The article isn't actually specific on this. They mention death threats but don't quote any. (I'm betting Mr Filardi didn't keep a scrapbook of death threats, and with his facebook account gone the record is gone too.)
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by lotu 8y ago
Why should we expect an online forum to be free of racism if oral forum of speech isn't. As another poster pointed out in a way the fact that racism is obvious in these platforms is an improvement over it hiding in plain sight.
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by lotu 8y ago
I'm confused by your comment are you saying diffrent rules should apply to Google vs other companies or are you saying Google lack the engineering talent to comply and everyone else has it. The former is a deeply troubling form of gove
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by lotu 8y ago
That is an awesome idea! I really like it, one thing I do know if you dig in the the ad settings for most provides you can find a page where they display this info and you can edit it. Unfortunately short of some type of mandate I don&#x27
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by lotu 8y ago
This was/is unclear, I actually remembering having an hour long discussions about this exact topic several months ago. This is the biggest problem with the GDPR it was hard to understand what could and could not be done.
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by lotu 8y ago
>it might support just a hundred publishers rather than ten million sites - but so be it. You want millions of people to loose their lively hood over this issue? That sounds cruel and spiteful to me. You also have to think of many small
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by lotu 8y ago
Native ads don't do this unless you mean something other than the standard definition. Native ad is just an ad that is formatted so it fits with the aesthetic style of the page, (for example it uses the same fonts and colors). This mak
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by lotu 8y ago
Ehh, if you changed it I bet people would learn really quickly not to lean on doors. Most people leaning on doors are going to be young people with decent reaction times and balance so I wouldn’t even expect injury more like surprise. It
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by lotu 8y ago
My understanding is that Facebook doesn’t actually sell data to advertisers. By this I mean you can’t go to Facebook and say, “I would like to buy data for 10,000 18-24 year old males in New York City, how much?” Instead you say, “I have
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by lotu 8y ago
It also means advertisers can’t miss appropriate your data (this could be part of the security thing). So I can’t say I want to know what themaguffinman’s been searching and google will send me a list of his searches for $50. When people s
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by lotu 8y ago
Or how about “If you are’t paying with money, you’re paying with time or attention”
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by lotu 9y ago
Most interviewers aren’t engineers, in tech sure, but their are lots of other industries
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by lotu 9y ago
Several of them also were asking what chickens where and why one would desire to own chickens in the first place. The whole thing is very sad the point of this is for each congress person to get to feel special by getting to look down and
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by lotu 9y ago
100% to this. I’m an enginer also working on GDPR and you sound exactly like my product manager. GDPR is likelly to result in the number of advertising technology companies going from thousands to dozens. One of the requirements is that
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by lotu 9y ago
An interesting if rather long read. However I’m not sure if your solutions of voluntary donations and cryptocurincies have viability. Voluntary donations have high friction to get a user to start donating (You don’t want to donate to a si
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by lotu 9y ago
That sounds like an explicit HIPA violation and is very much against the law for both the hospital to share the data and Facebook to do that linking. It sounds tin foil hat conspiracy to me.
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by lotu 9y ago
To do what? Facebook uses user data to, run Facebook, do research (train machine learning which uses de personalized data), and show ads. If they aren’t showing ads what other things are you expecting them to do that you find problematic.
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by lotu 9y ago
Obviously not, the point is if you are poor and want to know if someone has a history of scamming people do you want to not eat this week and be a formal background check, or run a quick google search and not worry about where to find food.
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by lotu 9y ago
What if grocery stores where required by law to evaluete people’s claims that articles about them should not be published and then remove those articles from the newpapers it sells (though newspapers sold directly to consumers were still un
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by lotu 9y ago
Okay this quote at the top of the article irked me. > Google has argued that it should be protected under an exception for journalism because it provides access to journalistic content. Even as a legal sleight of hand, the argument is q
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by lotu 9y ago
This is a interesting point. You could imagine a partial simplistic solution that de ranked historical information for people unless it is specifically being asked for. It’s not clear that a search for a person’s “Bob Smith” nessacarily i
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by lotu 9y ago
People who own the roads and collect tolls?
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by lotu 9y ago
It is in the video
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by lotu 9y ago
A return policy doesn't mean the store is a 15 day rental service with no cost. Those exist but they cost money. So the idea that returns aren't unlimited is reasonable. I'm going to suspect the the lawyers that draft the
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by lotu 9y ago
Dead link
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by lotu 9y ago
Japanese internment camps? I’m sure at that scale people died that would not have. Next given the scale of wwii I’m sure there were us citizens fighting for the axis powers. The main difference is we lacked the ability to track, research,
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by lotu 9y ago
I think you dramatically overestimating the value that you might get from form submissions, provided you are intending to commit identity fraud. Which literally no-one is suggesting ad tracking is doing.

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