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Re:GDPR will pop the adtech bubble by levashovbiz on Sunday May 13, 2018 @08:04PM (#17061757)
I had very similar experience with Facebook when tried to check my profile. Out of 20 interests only 4 were correct

I think it is an intentional stretching the interests way to far to look better for advertisers.

In more details: https://levashov.biz/can-trust-facebook-audience-interests/

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Re:GDPR will pop the adtech bubble by kerng on Sunday May 13, 2018 @08:34PM (#17061862)
The idea of advertising is also to create interest where there is none. If you all of a sudden see an ad about those other topics your aren't super interested yet, maybe you will become. That's the idea of manipulation and marketing.
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Re:GDPR will pop the adtech bubble by usrusr on Monday May 14, 2018 @04:06AM (#17063699)
That's the kind of advertisement TV is selling, not what social media are claiming to sell.
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