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@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 3 months ago

Data Broker Brags About Having Highly Detailed Personal Information on Nearly All Internet Users

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Data Broker Brags About Having Highly Detailed Personal Information on Nearly All Internet Users

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The advertising industry is immensely powerful, and disturbingly opaque.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/40848536

  • @[email protected]
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    19•3 months ago

    Start teaching people to ignore ads. I know I do, and it’s something my parents taught me when I was younger.

    It won’t help with data collection, but it will make it a lot harder for these assholes to put the pieces together.

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      18•3 months ago

      How about teaching them to install Adblockers?

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        6•3 months ago

        Only helps wherever adblockers work, but I’m all for a multiple discipline approach!

        • 🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖
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          6•3 months ago

          The only place adblockers don’t work is real world billboards.

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            i would be much more interested in the whole AR-glasses BS if one of them had an app that blocks ads in real life

            • 🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖
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              2•3 months ago

              I think ar glasses would be cool regardless but adblock is defiantly a top priority application.

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      1•2 months ago

      Now a lot of advertising is hidden in plain sight. They’re articles, news stories, educational videos, youtube “content.” Adblockers don’t help when everything is either an ad, or social engineering.

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        2•2 months ago

        All part of educating people to recognize ads

    • HubertManne
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      7•3 months ago

      Honestly whats even the point. It shows that she is losing income and will buy cheaper juice so its advertising cheaper juice brands which she is going to buy anyway. It honestly seems very stupid.

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        3•3 months ago

        You could make the argument that someone could guide her to a specific cheap brand, but I agree that it’s stupid

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