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I wonder how many "parts" of the Internet are simply going to be inaccessible over the course of the year to individuals residing within the EU as websites take a rudimentary "block all EU traffic" approach as a first swing at preventing their services from being offered to EU residents.
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> I switch to in-cognito, just because I've noticed that Google isn't currently tracking stuff like that by IP. This way I don't get recommended Boney M videos in YouTube or adverts for cars I don't actually have an interest in elsewhere. If you go through all that trouble, why don't you simply turn off personalized ads? https://adssettings.google.com/
I already have. But I like to double up on my privacy controls where possible, just in case. Opening up incognito takes a fraction of a second more, it's become part of my workflow.
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Piwik has several blog post about this very topic, for example: https://matomo.org/blog/2017/09/gdpr-potential-consequences-... You can disable the tracking parts in Piwik, or you can assume a legal stance under one of the 6 exceptions like "Legitimate interests" ( https://matomo.org/blog/2018/04/lawful-basis-for-processing-... ).
Thanks, that's very interesting! I wasn't aware that IP address is considered personal data under GDPR... That seems exploitable...
My first thought is that you could impersonate a person by spoofing their IP address. PII identifies a person but I don't think anyone is advocating for (solely) IP-address based bank logins.
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> By and large, it doesn't, very well. I know Twitter isn't known for being the best at advertising, but it was made exceptionally clear to me that online advertising is a massive bunch of lies when I did my GDPR Twitter data export and it included me in a bunch of incorrect, non-sensical and contradictory ad targeting groups. Twitter claims I: * Own a cat, dog and other animal (I don't) * Have between $100k- $999k l…
> GDPR Twitter data export and it included me in a bunch of incorrect, non-sensical and contradictory ad targeting groups. This is expected. It's not desirable, but it is expected. The problem is your comparing it to an absolute. I.e. to perfect. If advertisers had that choice, they would love it. They generally don't. Remarketing is kinda close, but limits the scale. Rather, the only other scalable options are far w…
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> I was very disappointed that the Google and Facebook data exports don't contain this data. Facebook has it available, if not in their Download Your Information tool. Go to Settings -> Ads -> Your Information -> Categories.
Mine says "You do not have any behaviors in your ad" preferences. https://i.imgur.com/giAxfiF.png But interesting page. Looking at the "advertisers who have added your details to their targeting list" it again shows how bullshit this industry is: * Playstation in 19 countries * Musicians which I definitely don't listen to, like Keith Urban, Post Malone, Jack White, YBN Nahmir, and Ziggy Marley, whoever these people a…
I also see a lot of PlayStation related ads on my news feed... I haven't used a PlayStation since I got an Xbox one!
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AB testing doesn't require personally identifiable information.
How do you bucket users into a control and enabled group without having some way of identifying them? (usually ip address)
Oddly, I think the article underestimates the size of the change coming. I think one side affect of the surge of IT into advertising, is that it has become easier to measure exactly how well advertising works. By and large, it doesn't, very well. I am reminded of this, from Paul Graham, about his time at Yahoo: http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html "...The reason Yahoo didn't care about a technique that extracted the…
> I think one side affect of the surge of IT into advertising, is that it has become easier to measure exactly how well advertising works. By and large, it doesn't, very well. I just don't understand the anti-social media agenda. The same people who for 2 years have been saying that social media advertising is so effective that it got trump elected are now saying it is ineffective. They demand that political advertis…
1) US election went “wrong”.
2) The same is happening to them
3) They’re mostly not hitting their own companies
Obviously it’s a lie. The “right” is gaining in Europe like crazy, not because of Facebook, but because the existing governments have seriously underperformed.
But politicians faced with the choice of admitting mistakes that they don’t even know how to fix, or to wildly and randomly strike at whoever got blamed ...
> perhaps a $trillion or more has been spent on adtech, and not one brand known to the world has been made by it Google.