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Re:Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy by tamana on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @05:10AM (#10937059)
How does real names relate to advertising? G+ doesn't even have ads. Google already has your browsing history to know your shopping interests. G+ had real names because Facebook had real names.
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Re:Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy by Terr_ on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @08:14PM (#10942713)
A real name and DOB go a long way to cross-correlating with other information. I work at a market-research company, and we're doing some partnering to correlate with voter records...
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