(also this feels hella iffy legally speaking)

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    1 year ago

    I used to work for a big data company and internally we acknowledged that for the targeting to be truly effective we’d have to do a truly creepy amount of behavior analysis. The fact that ads don’t really drive clicks is a dirty little secret in the industry.

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      I feel like its also pretty easily spotted / avoided / defeated, after a very small amount of knowledge about the industry is understood. Unless there’s an Ad-agent assigned to individuals, I can’t see there being an ad targeted towards me that I wouldn’t immediately note as such.

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        Oh they’ll be putting “AI” on it as your personal agent soon enough. Undoubtedly already have pushed it through many black box algorithms and machine learning models, so arguably too late.