• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I built software around 2010-2014 around harvesting visitor data.

    Shit was scary back then with how much we could predict. We were already laser targeting customers and people. I can only imagine what they’re doing now.

    This was before the whole “big data” push when companies were cross-referencing data sources from other harvesters.

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      1 year ago

      oh rly? then why, after i’ve used facebook daily for 15 years, does it thin my interests include “foot” and and actors ive never heard of? why does google, after about that same amount of usage plus me owning many androids and having an even deeper entanglement with it than with facebook, think i’m the opposite sex (!) and imagine countless interest for me that i don’t have, just like facebook?

      iv yet to see any of these companies being very accurate about me.