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Nothing wrong with being gay/lgbt. But in many states in the US you can legally be fired or denied housing on the basis of being lgbt.
really ? i thought USA was the land of the free ...
This is a bit creepy but it is the kind of thing that could be guessed from facebook activity so it is kind of to be expected. Lately I've been seeing ads that correlate with things that happen to me completely outside Facebook. About things on sites I only access through google for example. I find this more disturbing. I checked the "Block third-party cookies and site data" in Chrome so they shouldn't be able to tra…
> last week I bought a new kind of barbecue sauce at the grocery store and the next day Facebook was asking me to like the specific brand's page Facebook has teamed up with datalogix to track users' offline purchases, but as far as I know this is just for a/b testing and not for targeting/ad serving. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/03/... It's also quite possible it's just a coincidence; that…
Or he saw the sauce on Facebook BEFORE he bought it, bought it unconsciously because of having seen it, and then only really consciously noticed the ad after he had already bought the sauce.
Which is much more probable.
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You do know that the medical profession has figured out a small amount of alcohol (a drink or so) after the first trimester isn't a problem, right?
Bullshit.
Oh, and "BS"? Really? It's from medical science.
What I wonder is, what kind of attitude will people who grow up with those kinds of analytics have towards them? A little while ago in a conversation about privacy an acquaintance told me that he feels good about the fact there is someone or something out there that cares about his interests, even if it's Google [1]. Thinking back to this brings up in my mind the conversation with the AI Morpheus in Deus Ex [2]; look…
Perhaps a Herbert reference is appropriate. "The most fundamental principles of the universe are accident and error."
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I don't think they stopped it. Just adjusted it so the offers we're alongside random stuff (eg discounts on lawn mowers). That way people wouldn't freak out (presumably because they didn't know how much the company really knew about them) http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.h... Edit: Worth posting the whole quote (just found it). “With the pregnancy products, though, we learned that some women…
Off-topic, but since when did Target start selling lawn mowers?