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A comment on Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Facebook. Parent comment

Re:Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Face... by JohnFen on Thursday September 19, 2019 @12:00PM (#21017459)
Then why do ad networks spend so much time, energy, and money to track individuals?
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Re:Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Face... by tekknik on Sunday September 22, 2019 @09:43AM (#21041319)
How is this even a question? One persons data is useless. They don’t care what you’re watching specifically, they care what everybody in a region is watching. They have to track individuals to get the profile data to categorize them in the first place.
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