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by tomlockwood 7y ago
Author here. Would you be ok with your health insurer buying your pizza purchase frequency from a data broker?
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by tomlockwood 7y ago
Author here. I think your response only holds true if both the market acts rationally (which isn't the case if people are optimizing-for-resume), and the benefit from claiming more conversions isn't as low hanging as other "
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by tomlockwood 7y ago
Thanks for your kind words! :) I worked at a Telecom for most of my time in AdTech so I think I might have had a close encounter with some particularly high overcollection of data there.
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by tomlockwood 7y ago
Author here. I wish I'd thought of your example before I wrote the article :D And I think my opinion on that is probably obvious, but I think the simplest answer is that Google simply doesn't care about mistargeting ads to a cons
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by tomlockwood 7y ago
Author here. Yeah, and to expand on the idea of liability, I also additionally mean the possibility of a financial liability. If we were to say, charge per month for a retained customer date of birth, you'd see business analysts inte
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by tomlockwood 7y ago
Author here - I actually had to change some of the image URLs I made because they had AdTech in the name, and uBlock was blocking them. Hahaha! I solemnly swear that my website has no tracking installed on it (that I know of, welp). Cheer
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by tomlockwood 7y ago
Author here, the pizza example is great because I've found it is one that'll get a good eyebrow raise out of most people. I think, like you say, it demonstrates how hard it is to protect yourself. Thanks for reading :)
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by tomlockwood 7y ago
I'm not sure since I've been out for a couple years, but at the time I'd often have conversations with marketers where I'd come away wondering how they could be so oblivious to the ethical concerns in what they were aski
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by tomlockwood 7y ago
Author here. I was attracted by the money, but also the exciting technical challenges. AdTech had all the largest datasets! At the time I entered the industry I wasn't really thinking about the ethical concerns. I just didn't t
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AdTech Sucks(lockwood.dev)
285 points by tomlockwood 7y ago|154 comments
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by tomlockwood 7y ago
This happens to people on the left all the time too. They get mass reported if they have any nazi symbols in their videos - even educationally.