Facebook Scans What You Send Other People on Messenger App

Post by Rjevski » Fri, Apr 06, 2018, 9:57 PM UTC

logicallee wrote: post #190

Rjevski wrote: post #189

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I don't use Gmail as I don't want to have ads in my inbox. Ads might have a place elsewhere but not in my daily work tool. I'm happy to pay Office 365 for the privilege of not having potential garbage advertised to me. One of my issues with advertising on the web is the tracking/stalking. I am okay with ads that are targeted based on the content of the current page as this does not require stalking me everywhere. My…

I do see what you mean about an echo chamber (filter bubble) and can understand some of your points. I guess Google's advertising has just never bothered me - and as mentioned upthread, one of my machines blocks their ad server so that I can't follow their ads when I try to: many times I've manually gotten around it to see what I tried to click. (This reminds me of how I do like their ads.) Maybe we have a difference…

Likewise - always good to hear other perspectives!

Post by danpalmer » Mon, Apr 09, 2018, 7:13 PM UTC

logicallee wrote: post #84

danpalmer wrote: post #68

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> Would you rather see ads for cat food? Yes. I do not own a cat but would prefer to see cat food ads. I would suggest however, that cat food brands should advertise on pet channels on Youtube, or on pet related blogs perhaps. This allows targeting, but without collecting data about the users, many of whom do not know enough about online advertising to provide informed consent. The best adverts I've seen were from Ca…

Let me ask you this then. I clicked your HN profile for clues about what your interests might be, and you mention your public key on keybase.io. For this example (I am writing this before I did this search) I will search Google for keybase.io and copy here one of the top ads. Unfortunately keybase.io and keybase as search terms don't show me any ads. Let me try "public key". Still no ad. (On Google's homepage.) Let m…

As I tried to explain in my comment, if the relevance of adverts depends on tracking me, I'd much rather have irrelevant ads. If the relevance can be done entirely through similarity or link to the content I'm consuming then I am much more ok with it.

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