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Re:PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services by qrbLPHiKpiux on Sunday June 30, 2019 @09:33AM (#20318113)
It thinks I’m addicted to opiates because of the suboxone ads it presents, only because sometimes I listen to 90’s techno, rave music.
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Re:PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services by orpep90nxkfo on Sunday June 30, 2019 @10:04AM (#20318246)
Not Google, but Twitter thinks I’m a 45 old married male with 3 kids

I’m 39, divorced, and have 2 kids

It’s almost as if the big data sales pitch is an epic joke like nuclear powered everything being pitched in the 50s

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Re:PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services by hombre_fatal on Sunday June 30, 2019 @01:30PM (#20319330)
What? That is an incredibly accurate profile derived from random tweets / follows, and certainly accurate enough to serve you ads.
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Re:PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services by orpep90nxkfo on Sunday June 30, 2019 @08:57PM (#20321638)
Fair point. Except I don’t post, follow feeds only, put nothing about my personal life in my profile, and they asked for my birthday.

So my point was aimed more at advertisers buying on Twitter: they filled in the blanks and got them all wrong. And the one they had the data for they got wrong.

That and I’m not a internet consumer really. Twitter can see I’ve blocked over 1,000 accounts that promoted tweets. Is that statistic being shared with advertisers?

Likely not. Advertisers believe so who cares.

It’s so ephemeral as to be useless.

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Re:PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services by cameronbrown on Sunday June 30, 2019 @10:24AM (#20318337)
Twitter is a mess in general. No wonder they struggle to monetize.
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