Facebook testing notification to users about Apple privacy changes

Re:Facebook testing notification to users about Apple privac... by kd0amg on Monday February 01, 2021 @02:33PM (#25992623)

> Clearly I'm missing something in my logic

Sampling methodology. Every ad impression in your sample was shown to the same person, but the ad industry is interested in billions of people.

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Re:Facebook testing notification to users about Apple privac... by bavent on Monday February 01, 2021 @03:00PM (#25992979)

I’m sorry, I don’t really follow. Could you explain a little bit more?

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Re:Facebook testing notification to users about Apple privac... by cmorgan31 on Monday February 01, 2021 @07:58PM (#25996269)

You weren’t served a hyper personalized ad because those get expensive at scale so they segment your id into ad target groups. You fit some form of gym enthusiast who shows interest in rowing segment and some unfortunate rowing company keeps throwing their money at you in a useless bid.

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