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I think you're taking Joshua's quote out of context: The WOPR learns about futility in game theory, not anonymity through exclusion.
I think OP is just reapplying it to another context where it works equally as well.
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I also read it as a direct response to the mother who put out the tweet and it seems pretty appropriate to me? What part of the parent comment is inaccurate?
Whether or not it's accurate matters a lot less than whether or not it's kind .
If I posted this point to her twitter feed, I would soften the language. But I would do my best not to change my point.
I would soften the language because I have a moral imperative- unlike twitter and instagram.
This seems to happen a lot when one's experience is statistically unlikely, or when it doesn't neatly mesh with a commercial opportunity. For instance, I am a transgender woman and I get THE WEIRDEST ads. Makes sense, since an algorithm meshing together my engagement histories from ten years of social platforms must see something quite strange. The only appropriately targeted advertisements I get are from academics i…
This happens all the time to me. And I'm the most generic type you can find, if you are attempting to classify humans: middle class tech savvy healthy white male 30-39. All it takes is a really really simple wrench in their system: my wife uses my computer (oh my god can you imagine that?!)
Yep. Remarketing is a great way to ruin Christmas shopping surprises on a shared IP address.
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I also read it as a direct response to the mother who put out the tweet and it seems pretty appropriate to me? What part of the parent comment is inaccurate?
Whether or not it's accurate matters a lot less than whether or not it's kind .
Suprised pregnancy doesn’t fall within the ‘no targeting based on health conditions’ policy of most ad platforms.
Target got in hot water in 2012 when a guy found out his 17 year old daughter was pregnant because of a customized ad sent to their home. In the articles at the time, they mentioned your whole life gets turned upside down when you have a kid. It's an event that changes your routines, and all retailers would love to become the new convenient store you routinely go to. Huge value for them. www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirh…
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Doesn't clicking on ads reward google, instead of punishing them?
The budget from advertisers is already credited to Google - if such tactic becomes popular, advertisers would get lower returns (bounces would be way higher than now), and move their budgets elsewhere, harming Google's business.
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https://adnauseam.io Here you go! Google actually banned this from the Chrome store so it must be hurting them.
For good reason: It's a fraudulent click.
I'm not making money off of it, nor does anyone I know or have a business relationship with stand to benefit from it.
I'm merely authorizing an application to use my local system to access unsolicited hyperlinks provided to me by a third party while viewing another party's Web site.
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I am coming to the conclusion that the only way to beat the system is to not play in the system. Or play as little as possible. I no longer go on FB, Instagram or Amazon. I do my best to just be anonymous. I don't "need" to hang out on social media. I lived quite happily before these services even existed, and will continue without them. We have control. We can resist their shiny toys. If we are waiting for THEM (or…
While I don't engage much on social media, I've found it better to randomly click an ad. I'm ruining their profile one click at a time. The ads I see across platforms and websites are so hilariously dumb and irrelevant now. You are going to be tracked, might as well ruin the analytics.
I just post irrelevant stuff to social media. Keep likes under control. Ad-block/tracking blocker and I'm wary of what I search in search boxes (Google or others. Sometimes DDG doesn't give a good answer so I go back to Google).