Re:Chris Hughes Says It’s Time to Break Up Facebook
by criddell on Thursday May 09, 2019 @09:58AM
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Sure, but you don't have to watch the user to do that. Target indirectly via the content of the page. If I search for "Harley Davidson", it makes a lot of sense to show motorcycle ads. If I'm reading an article about curing cancer with apricot kernels, then show me ads for oncology centers or maybe for woo enhancer.
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Re:Chris Hughes Says It’s Time to Break Up Facebook
by c0vfefe on Thursday May 09, 2019 @10:56AM
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But it's more profitable to store multiple user interests & behaviors in a database to be exploited in any number of ways, including selling. The aggregation even lets you infer other valuable information about the user, such as the scandal with Target inferring pregnancies several years ago.