Re:Menstruation Apps Are Sharing Users' Data
by cameronbrown on Monday September 09, 2019 @09:28PM
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Advertisers can sure be creepy can't they.
Maybe FB audiences should be made public, or you're told if you're in one. It seems a lot more invasive than other Ads software I've looked into (from the perspective of what you could do).
Re:Menstruation Apps Are Sharing Users' Data
by marvin on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @08:12AM
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Just do all at the same time. That's the path to maximum shareholder value, assuming you can avoid turning it into a scandal.
Re:Menstruation Apps Are Sharing Users' Data
by TeMPOraL on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @06:41AM
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I think I'll quote this comment on my "why advertising is a cancer on modern society" list.
Re:Menstruation Apps Are Sharing Users' Data
by jakear on Monday September 09, 2019 @09:35PM
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Might be missing something here, but why would women who might be pregnant be a particularly valuable audience for porn sites, tinder, etc?
Re:Menstruation Apps Are Sharing Users' Data
by mtrower on Monday September 09, 2019 @11:11PM
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Not the women - their partners.
Re:Menstruation Apps Are Sharing Users' Data
by TeMPOraL on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @06:49AM
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And to clarify, it's not always because of ill intent of the partner. Depending on preexisting issues and new conditions caused by a pregnancy, it's not uncommon to get an advice from doctor (or even a written advice from the hospital) to refrain from sexual activity. This makes the partner a much more interesting target for aforementioned sites.
Re:Menstruation Apps Are Sharing Users' Data
by wmeredith on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @07:27AM
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And for more clarity, this can swing the other way, too. Sometimes pregnant women want sex more than normal, which can be totally fine/healthy depending on the health of the mother and baby. Hormones are extremely powerful and affect people differently.
Data from those apps is really valuable from a marketing perspective.
The case with least value is selling it to P&G or whoever just to track how much market share do they have.
If you put a tracker on it (facebook, for example) you can build a custom audience on top of it and promote/sell whatever you want related to reproductive healt and/or sexuality. Not just women.
You could be a little evil and sell women tampons before they have menstruation.
You could be evil and build a custom Facebook audience with users from your app and make money selling them stuff using a retargeting bid (since they are part of your audience).
Or you could be very evit and target partners of women whe ceased to use your app for more than, say, 3-4 months and show ads for DNA paternity tests (which you don't sell, but someone else does and gives a referral fee for it).
Or you could have very, very evil and build an audience around partners of women who might be pregnant, capture the clicks to build another audience (this time yours) and sell porn, tinder, dating/e-whoring, and divorce advice for a fee. Will work because this is a retargeting list (you already marked them as your customers, so bidding will be low for the ads).