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Re:Ask HN: What is so great about Bloomberg Terminal? by cm2012 on Sunday February 26, 2017 @09:25AM (#13737340)
I know it's a joke, but as a high spend Facebook advertiser, I can tell you that Facebook only sells audience information in aggregate, not on an individual basis.
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Re:Ask HN: What is so great about Bloomberg Terminal? by return0 on Sunday February 26, 2017 @11:41AM (#13738091)
They could use their ai to match you with advertised products. You wouldnt need individual data in this case.
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Re:Ask HN: What is so great about Bloomberg Terminal? by cm2012 on Sunday February 26, 2017 @12:24PM (#13738377)
Still, the AI matches you into an "audience" which is targetable. It doesn't tell the advertiser that they're advertising to John, Jane, and Joaquin, specifically.
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Re:Ask HN: What is so great about Bloomberg Terminal? by jacobush on Sunday February 26, 2017 @05:26PM (#13740376)
Unless you make gender a datapoint, and advertise to a group of 20, where only one is male. Oldest trick in the (face-) book.
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Re:Ask HN: What is so great about Bloomberg Terminal? by randomdata on Sunday February 26, 2017 @10:17AM (#13737560)
Not yet.
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Re:Ask HN: What is so great about Bloomberg Terminal? by sreenadh on Sunday February 26, 2017 @09:44AM (#13737416)
...P R I S M...
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Re:Ask HN: What is so great about Bloomberg Terminal? by cm2012 on Sunday February 26, 2017 @09:53AM (#13737466)
That's not sold, so not comparable to BB.
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Re:Ask HN: What is so great about Bloomberg Terminal? by reitanqild on Sunday February 26, 2017 @10:11AM (#13737536)
Evil mode:

That's not sold

No, given freely away for "protection".

Evil mode off:

I have less problems with western TLAs as they exist today but find it very scary to think about what might happen once we see a really big data leak from FB. Or Facebook folds and is bought by someone who's set on making money from the assets.

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Re:Ask HN: What is so great about Bloomberg Terminal? by jwatte on Sunday February 26, 2017 @01:01PM (#13738585)
Facebook is in the business of making money off the assets. The thing that keeps them off the worst edge is that they want to stay in business long term.
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Re:Ask HN: What is so great about Bloomberg Terminal? by __jal on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @06:09PM (#13769537)
This is why I've started using the phrase "intelligence-entertainment complex".
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