Well clearly they have some work to do because I'm labeled as very liberal but I'm actually conservative - and I engage with politics on Facebook a decent amount
I do like to read liberal articles though because I find them interesting
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#32Main takeaway from this: Facebook know much less about me than I thought. Maybe the whole online advertising industry is an emperor's-new-clothes situation. My favourite bands appear to be Blaise Matuidi (who is a footballer - I don't even know who he plays for though), Kool & The Gang, Kool & The Gang, Kool & The Gang, and Kool & The Gang. My favourite sports entities are Team and Kool & The Gang. Under food & drink…
>I'm a pretty active Facebook user too, so it's not like they have a death of data.
dearth.
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#33This prompted me to delete all my interests on Facebook, and it made me find a bug: when you don't have any interests, it'll show a spinner that never goes away. [0]
[0] https://www.dropbox.com/s/35731h2se6d1ur2/Screenshot%202016-...
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#34If I were facebook I would hesitate to make this so visible because I wouldn't want my advertising clients to know how unsophisticated and inaccurate these inferences seem to be.
I know. In my case, they can show me ads for a Sukhoi-24 all they want, I'm not going to buy one. :)
As someone who identifies as an attack helicopter, this is relevant to my interests. Is she on AirSupportr?
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#35For me (non-US) the political interests I found are hilariously inconsistent. - Leftist/communist - Democratic Socialist - Obama - Nationalist - Pirate Party - Workers international
What's inconsistent about them?
I personally find that being leftist implies that one is more open towards a more global view of politics (instead of the nationalistic approach).
Also I find that Facebook thinks that Obama fits in that set, ridiculous.
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#36Is there something similar for google ??
You can see your ad profile: https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads/authenticated
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#37If I were facebook I would hesitate to make this so visible because I wouldn't want my advertising clients to know how unsophisticated and inaccurate these inferences seem to be.
These are not the tags Facebook uses to target ads. Well, they are included, but they use far more hidden, or "dark tags"
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#381. My music choices are frozen in time from college 16 years ago (incidentally, daytime Alt Rock music channels in DC similarly haven't progressed past early 2000 nostalgia).
2. My lifestyle and culture is Mac OSX and Android, due to whatever devices I happen to use Facebook on.
3. My food and drink interest is a single choice: "Food".
Well played Facebook.
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#39Interesting. I'm a moderate. Who knew? Also interesting: I'm a Christian. I haven't been to a church in 10 or 15 years. I'm an agnostic. I tell people all the time that I'm not religious. But, because of my upbringing, I have a lot of Christian friends. From time-to-time I like their stuff. So Facebook says I'm a Christian. So I must be a Christian? Facebook knows I have teenagers in the house, and that I have adult…
From one point of view, Christianity is more of a culture than a purely religious thing.
Books use allusions to the Bible, even if their authors and readers aren't very religious. People pay lip service to the idea of God (singular, capitalised, and having a particular brand of deity in mind), even if they haven't prayed in decades.
> How in the world could FB figure out I'm an early adopter?
Maybe if you accessed Facebook from a recently released device?
Facebook decided that Mac OSX is part of my 'lifestyle', merely because of the fact that I access them through only through a Mac now despite being a PC owner for decades before that.
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#40TL;DR: for those hitting a paywall: 1) Go to https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences 2) Open the Lifestyle and culture tab under the Interests section 3) Find the US Politics box and see what Facebook thinks you are in the parentheses Edit: Apparently I am targeted for ads related to bubble wrap.
And of course you'll only have the "US Politics" box if you are in the US (but I get "equivalent" results)
Nope. Indian, but get "US Politics (Liberal)".