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Re:FTC Report Confirms: Commercial Surveillance Is Out of Co... by bofadeez on Sunday September 29, 2024 @02:14PM (#41689214)
Sounds like vaporware. Might be possible for a negligibly small % of visitors. And even then cold outreach is not very effective.
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Re:FTC Report Confirms: Commercial Surveillance Is Out of Co... by drdaeman on Sunday September 29, 2024 @05:48PM (#41690998)
It's basically same as classic approach of correlating salaries with ZIP codes, just with more parameters. Which sort of works statistically, because there are correlations - but is nothing more than a hallucination at individual visitor scale.
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Re:FTC Report Confirms: Commercial Surveillance Is Out of Co... by bofadeez on Monday September 30, 2024 @03:35AM (#41694506)
That seems more realistic. But even if a marketer theoretically had access to atomic level detail on every single prospect, there's not much they can do to manufacture demand.

Humans are kind of smart and resistant to manipulation. Especially the ones with money.

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Re:FTC Report Confirms: Commercial Surveillance Is Out of Co... by drdaeman on Monday September 30, 2024 @02:48PM (#41700585)
> Humans are kind of smart and resistant to manipulation. Especially the ones with money.

I'm not sure. I think gaming/gambling industry having a concept of "whales" kind of disproves this.

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