Re:What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?
by senthil_rajasek on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:37PM
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They are very different ad companies.
One shows ads along side search results based on what you are looking for... FB snoops on me and shoves cereal ads at me like street corner flyer pushers.
Re:What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?
by newscracker on Friday January 24, 2020 @04:37PM
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Correction, Google shows ads based on what you search for, which locations you visit, who you communicate with, what kind of photos you take, who’s in the photos you take and so on. All the data collected by Google is intended and used to shove ads to you, since ads is the biggest money earner for Google by a huge margin. None of the Google services are provided “free” out of some benevolence.
If you’re using Android, Google has been snooping on you a lot more often than Facebook could dream of.
Re:What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?
by sp332 on Friday January 24, 2020 @09:26PM
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You know Google owns an ad network right? They show ads on lots of sites around the internet, not just on Google search results. They use data from Google Analytics to track you around the web.
Some people would consider tracking users across the entire web and selling ads based on their behavior to be disrespectful of privacy. Google hasn't had any big fuck-ups like Facebook with CA, but ultimately they both are advertising companies that owe their success to selling personalized ads.