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Re:Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales by taurath on Thursday August 30, 2018 @06:58PM (#17881550)
The only choice is to lobby your government officials to create laws preventing this sort of data collection.

End-users have zero power anymore except by collective action in the form of government regulations.

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Re:Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales by spydum on Thursday August 30, 2018 @08:34PM (#17882042)
I am curious though, what is the down side to the consumer for this kind of analytics?
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Re:Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales by yuhong on Thursday August 30, 2018 @07:00PM (#17881559)
My favorite is tracing back the problems to Larry/Sergey, which is why I wrote the essay.
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