Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings

Re:Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings by 3guk on Thursday October 29, 2020 @06:02PM (#24936621)

It frustrates me that they still haven’t figured out that perhaps a users language is not tied to their IP address and that perhaps other indicators should be considered.

Whilst I hate adverts - it seems like a waste of both advertiser spend and my time, to show me adverts that I do not understand....

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Re:Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings by kinkrtyavimoodh on Thursday October 29, 2020 @08:14PM (#24937681)

Google makes ads generic: "Google is so dumb it doesn't even know my language"

Google infers your language and other information about you and serves specific ads: "omg Google is so creepy."

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Re:Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings by gerash on Thursday October 29, 2020 @08:20PM (#24937740)

If they get too efficient with signals folks are going to push back because ads become too targeted and feels their privacy is at risk.

I personally feel the best solutions are either ad-free services that are paid for either one time or through a subscription.

If something is ad supported, then the way to guarantee privacy is to take a pool of candidate ads from an ad network and rank them locally based on a personal profile stored locally as well and pick the top ad to display. These locally stored personal profiles need to be also synced across personal devices with automatic merge conflict resolution.

As you can see it requires quite a bit of infrastructure that doesn't seem to exist

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Re:Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings by ogre_codes on Thursday October 29, 2020 @06:08PM (#24936673)

I don't know, I'd almost prefer that. Gives you an easy signal to ignore.

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