So what if Google sends me targeted ads?
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So what if Google sends me targeted ads?
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Re: So what if Google sends me targeted ads?
#2"My supermarket has a savings scheme, in exchange for my personal information. The way it works is that the cashier asks: do you want to join this savings scheme? If the customer says yes, they give you a form to fill in your details. If you say no, they leave you alone, and you miss out on the discount or gifts."
Hahahaha, yes, if you don't join their club, they don't collect personal information.
Re: So what if Google sends me targeted ads?
#3"My supermarket has a savings scheme, in exchange for my personal information. The way it works is that the cashier asks: do you want to join this savings scheme? If the customer says yes, they give you a form to fill in your details. If you say no, they leave you alone, and you miss out on the discount or gifts." Hahahaha, yes, if you don't join their club, they don't collect personal information.
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Re: So what if Google sends me targeted ads?
#4"My supermarket has a savings scheme, in exchange for my personal information. The way it works is that the cashier asks: do you want to join this savings scheme? If the customer says yes, they give you a form to fill in your details. If you say no, they leave you alone, and you miss out on the discount or gifts." Hahahaha, yes, if you don't join their club, they don't collect personal information.
Or you just provide someone else’s information. Who says you have to share your true name with your supermarket? Unfortunately it’s very difficult to lie to google
Re: So what if Google sends me targeted ads?
#5"My supermarket has a savings scheme, in exchange for my personal information. The way it works is that the cashier asks: do you want to join this savings scheme? If the customer says yes, they give you a form to fill in your details. If you say no, they leave you alone, and you miss out on the discount or gifts." Hahahaha, yes, if you don't join their club, they don't collect personal information.
Or you just provide someone else’s information. Who says you have to share your true name with your supermarket? Unfortunately it’s very difficult to lie to google
If the company uses phone numbers to lookup accounts, (Local-Area-Code)-8675-309 almost always works.
Re: So what if Google sends me targeted ads?
#6The issue isn't just targeted ads though. This data, once in the hands of google, is packaged and resold to whomever google pleases, for whatever purposes those parties see fit - not even to mention inevitable breaches. Not google, but see the whole healthcare data fiasco lately with apps using facebook's analytics API's as an example.
Re: So what if Google sends me targeted ads?
#7Meh, I'm still not convinced.
I mean, I suppose I get possibly being creeped out that Google knows you prefer Pepsi over Coke and that you recently purchased an adult toy or whatever, but...meh? So they'll use that data to sell me targeted ads that I'm just going to block anyways.
I just don't see how it's actually harmful beyond the government access issue that's just dropped in as a single sentence at the end of one paragraph.
> A relatively recent example is PayPal blocking individuals from transacting or fining them for having the wrong politics.
Any time someone cries about being cancelled for having the wrong politics, I always think of this famous tweet:
https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/105039166355267174...
Conservative: I have been censored for my conservative views
Me: Holy shit! You were censored for wanting lower taxes?
Con: LOL no...no not those views
Me: So....deregulation?
Con: Haha no not those views either
Me: Which views, exactly?
Con: Oh, you know the ones
Re: So what if Google sends me targeted ads?
#8Something the article doesn't mention is that your data is not only used to target you with ads. It's also used to target you with propaganda or any political or social agenda a person, organization or state is willing to pay for. Adtech is the perfect weapon of information warfare, and it's been successfuly used to influence public opinion, and corrupt democratic processes (e.g. Cambridge Analytica).
Both ads and propaganda have the same objective, psychological manipulation, and the difference is that one wants to manipulate you into buying a product, and the other wants to manipulate you into buying into an idea. These are insidious objectives on both a personal, and societal level.
One more thing: once adtech has your personal data, it is sold in perpetuity on shady data broker markets, and any company with access to it can exploit it and get rich from it. As with anything on the internet, once it's out there, it exists forever, except you'll have no control over who it's sold to, under what terms, and, of course, you'll never see a cent of profit.
All adtech companies should be paying users to use their services. "Free" is not only not free, but it's extremely profitable for the company you give your data to.
The fact that most people either don't understand any of this, or don't care, is deeply troubling for the future of our civilization.
Re: So what if Google sends me targeted ads?
#9While the post doesn't address it, ask yourself: What if you do have something to hide? What if your government was like China's or Russia's? If you let privacy vanish now, you'll be helpless when you need it. Data is power:
How pre-teens using metadata found a whistleblower in two hours - https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/how-team-of-pre...
Trust your instincts, you have them for a reason. If it was private investigators and spies following you around to gather what Google/credit cards/mobile networks know about you, you would immediately recognize it as malicious and dangerous. That it has now been automated doesn't change that.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or you just provide someone else’s information. Who says you have to share your true name with your supermarket? Unfortunately it’s very difficult to lie to google
If the company uses phone numbers to lookup accounts, (Local-Area-Code)-8675-309 almost always works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny
This feels a bit like giving your name as "Prawo Jazdy":
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7899171....