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Re: Show HN: Simple script to cripple personalized targeting from Facebook

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Post by GeoHubToday »

jzig wrote: post #13
GeoHubToday wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if you stay logged out, your data is collected from your mobile devices. And even if you brick your devices and pull the battery, your data is collected by other people's mobile devices. It all runs to data brokers in the end, and that data has a reliance on Facebook for additional refinement. This technique impacts that refinement step.

You sound like you have intimate knowledge of the landscape. What would be a great disruption?

I do

And

It's a -HUGE- surface area to cover

When IoT and IoB comes online, it will be near impossible to stop this kind of stuff

Re: Show HN: Simple script to cripple personalized targeting from Facebook

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Post by dcgudeman »

luqtas wrote: post #46
mgraczyk wrote: post #44

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And you are using the term "gangstalk", which refers to a specific symptom of mental illness, ironically?

& feeling paranoia is a garantee of having mental disease?

It's definitely not a sign of mental health...

Re: Show HN: Simple script to cripple personalized targeting from Facebook

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Post by seadan83 »

Awesome script! I'm watching it run now :)

Question, could someone explain the exact impact this would have for Facebook & a person's experience with ads?

I kinda have a few guesses, but am curious if anyone can weigh in with more info, how this is crippling and overall what the effect should be. Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Simple script to cripple personalized targeting from Facebook

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Post by serf »

scubbo wrote: post #33
somat wrote: post #23

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Then facebook gets to track my shadow self.

Why would a person who objects to Facebook tracking them via their actual profile not object to Facebook tracking them via inferences?

because the far-parent problem was 'facebook has ads that target me.'

an easy way to avoid the problem of seeing ads on facebook is.. to avoid facebook.

yes, this doesn't solve the privacy and ad-affiliate network problem -- but that wasn't the stated problem.

Re: Show HN: Simple script to cripple personalized targeting from Facebook

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Post by bqmjjx0kac »

mgraczyk wrote: post #48
luqtas wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

& feeling paranoia is a garantee of having mental disease?

No, but the phrase "gangstalk" refers to a specific kind of persecutory delusion. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_stalking

In the words of Kurt Cobain, "Just because you're paranoid don't mean they're not after you."

But I take your point. Using clinical terms in another context creates an unnecessary/unwanted association for readers.

Re: Show HN: Simple script to cripple personalized targeting from Facebook

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Post by gerdesj »

willcipriano wrote: post #18
useEffect wrote: post #16

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my hack is just to not have facebook

My hack is being just young enough that having a Facebook would make me feel old.

You have rather succinctly noted that sodding huge walled off communities come and go, with time. ::FAC3:B00C: is already very old school and largely irrelevant. They just haven't noticed yet.

Whither Geocities and Compuserve?

Re: Show HN: Simple script to cripple personalized targeting from Facebook

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Post by lioeters »

GeoHubToday wrote: post #51
jzig wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You sound like you have intimate knowledge of the landscape. What would be a great disruption?

I do And It's a -HUGE- surface area to cover When IoT and IoB comes online, it will be near impossible to stop this kind of stuff

For others like me who hadn't heard of IoB.

> IoB (Internet of Behavior) as an extension of the IoT, which focuses on capturing, processing, and analyzing the “digital dust” in people’s daily lives. The term ”digital dust” is a good metaphor for the traces that users leave behind in their Internet activities. As the collection of digital dust from everyday life increases, including data that spans both the digital and physical worlds, information can in turn influence users’ behaviors.

Re: Show HN: Simple script to cripple personalized targeting from Facebook

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Post by daelon »

GeoHubToday wrote: post #51
jzig wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You sound like you have intimate knowledge of the landscape. What would be a great disruption?

I do And It's a -HUGE- surface area to cover When IoT and IoB comes online, it will be near impossible to stop this kind of stuff

What's IoB?

Re: Show HN: Simple script to cripple personalized targeting from Facebook

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Post by ryandrake »

serf wrote: post #54
scubbo wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would a person who objects to Facebook tracking them via their actual profile not object to Facebook tracking them via inferences?

because the far-parent problem was 'facebook has ads that target me.' an easy way to avoid the problem of seeing ads on facebook is.. to avoid facebook. yes, this doesn't solve the privacy and ad-affiliate network problem -- but that wasn't the stated problem.

Yea they can track my shadow profile all they want and I don’t care. I don’t visit them so they aren’t showing me ads.
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