Grindr and OKCupid Sell Your Data, but Twitter’s MoPub Is the Real Problem

Re:Grindr and OKCupid Sell Your Data, but Twitter’s MoPub Is... by Bnshsysjab on Monday January 27, 2020 @10:17PM (#22166115)

I _think_ cyanogenmod exposes some of this functionality.

But as soon as it’s implemented, snoopy apps will just raise the bar further (sms verification, face verification, ‘add this contact to your phone book’, etc)

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Re:Grindr and OKCupid Sell Your Data, but Twitter’s MoPub Is... by loa_in_ on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @12:23AM (#22166681)

They can verify SMS all they want but they'll sell my location data consisting only of my random floats. I don't mind legitimate uses, like verifying you're a human or a real user for that matter.

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Re:Grindr and OKCupid Sell Your Data, but Twitter’s MoPub Is... by dreamcompiler on Monday January 27, 2020 @10:18PM (#22166121)

Yep. It's going to be an arms race. So be it. Our AI vs. adtech AI.

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Re:Grindr and OKCupid Sell Your Data, but Twitter’s MoPub Is... by other_herbert on Monday January 27, 2020 @10:32PM (#22166190)

It may just be that once this exists then you end up in the "software engineer who uses hn " bucket and will just see adds for ssds and processors and coding conferences... A segment that is really hard to identify may turn into a group that is generally easy to identify...

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Re:Grindr and OKCupid Sell Your Data, but Twitter’s MoPub Is... by pferde on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @06:20AM (#22168344)

That's good, that's how we know it works. From there, it can spread to family members, friends, etc.

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Re:Grindr and OKCupid Sell Your Data, but Twitter’s MoPub Is... by Bnshsysjab on Saturday February 01, 2020 @05:17AM (#22209763)

Please don’t. I can’t beat google captchas as it is.

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