Re:Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been ...
by Nextgrid on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @10:28AM
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> so what am I losing?
The fact that they can use this number to correlate against contact lists collected from other people.
Now I don't think Twitch itself is doing this, but they may provide this information to marketing platforms such as Facebook which will use this data for ad targeting (and they definitely have a lot of people's contacts and can infer social graphs very well as a result).
The fact that they can use this number to correlate against contact lists collected from other people.
Now I don't think Twitch itself is doing this, but they may provide this information to marketing platforms such as Facebook which will use this data for ad targeting (and they definitely have a lot of people's contacts and can infer social graphs very well as a result).