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WhiskeyGrinder

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13. But it's not necessarily about the ads, or clicking on the ads.

Reply to Volaris (Reply #12)

Fri Mar 30, 2018, 09:02 PM

Mar 2018

It's about what you *do.* What you watch, what you watch *next,* what you watch again, what other websites you visit, what websites you visit while you're watching. Some people aren't bothered by behavioral information being tracked and commodified, because they believe they're smarter than the algorithms, or that it doesn't matter because it's not linked to them personally. But the more data there is in a set, the better the predictions and manipulations are. Whatever you do online, even if you're blocking and not clicking on ads, it's building a data set that someone, somewhere, wants and is willing to pay for.

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Cambridge Analytica has most likely stolen information about every single person on Facebook. [View all] onecaliberal Mar 2018 OP

We Need Richard Hendrix of "Silicon Valley" to Hurry up with the De-centralized Internet Stallion Mar 2018 #1

Does it help that we put nothing in our profile, Ilsa Mar 2018 #2

Im not sure. Maybe. Maybe the basic info you used to sign up and verify its you. onecaliberal Mar 2018 #4

Some but not really mythology Mar 2018 #6

Again, it's not the "personal information" that's valuable. It's the information about how you act WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2018 #3

Very good points. I just think its creepy. onecaliberal Mar 2018 #5

Yeah, that horse ran off and died a long, long time ago. WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2018 #9

The scale of the information is much bigger now mythology Mar 2018 #7

Right, that's what I'm saying. WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2018 #8

Well, if Facebook (not that I use it for much) or Google think Volaris Mar 2018 #10

Oh, it's not always about elections. Most websites you visit are tracking what you do to build a WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2018 #11

My response to that is the following: Volaris Mar 2018 #12

But it's not necessarily about the ads, or clicking on the ads. WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2018 #13

Does Does that make me entitled to a cut of what they get for selling it later? Volaris Mar 2018 #14

Now you're getting it. WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2018 #15

Unlikely, since Facebook has 2.2 billion users, 6.75 times the population of the United States FarCenter Mar 2018 #16