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   Another Angry Woman (stavvers@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 19:51:43 JST Another Angry Woman

   I don't think people understand just how much "data-driven advertising" is a fucking scam. For example, Facebook has known my date of birth for about 15 years, and pretty much every ad it serves is for activities explicitly for under 30s. I'm 38. It knows this.

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     Another Angry Woman (stavvers@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 19:59:06 JST Another Angry Woman

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     This is going to be one of those threads that I wish Mastodon had a "turn off replies" features, so anyway before replying, please thoroughly read this and also know that I work in marketing so I have a decent grasp on how advertising works, which is how I can confidently say the entire thing is a fucking scam run by the stupidest people in the world. https://anotherangrywoman.com/2023/01/18/how-to-give-advice-on-the-internet-without-being-an-utter-menace/

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     Another Angry Woman (stavvers@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 19:59:07 JST Another Angry Woman

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     Google and the brand I bought it from know that I own a specific type of mattress. They know this because I googled it and came into the website and bought it. And yet, I get advertised that specific mattress, from that specific supplier.

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     Another Angry Woman (stavvers@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 19:59:08 JST Another Angry Woman

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     Facebook knows I live in London, and has known this fact for more than a decade. It just loves to serve me ads for businesses in Birmingham, where it knows I don't live.

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     Another Angry Woman (stavvers@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 20:28:42 JST Another Angry Woman

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     @goatsarah "she's interested in innovation. Hooo boy do we have some innovative disruption for her!"

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     Mⱺ℠ (nevali@troet.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 20:31:44 JST Mⱺ℠

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     @stavvers Dante wrote poetry about it

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     Another Angry Woman (stavvers@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 20:31:45 JST Another Angry Woman

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     @nevali my *god* imagine getting a coach all the way to Oxfordshire from there

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     Mⱺ℠ (nevali@troet.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 20:31:46 JST Mⱺ℠

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     @stavvers oh god don’t get me started

     my current fave is YouTube serving me „days out in Oxfordshire with Stagecoach“ when i live and work in the west of Scotland, which Google KNOWS

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     BelatedLúnasa Healy-Rae-Nua ✅️ (tarbh@mastodon.ie)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 21:01:30 JST BelatedLúnasa Healy-Rae-Nua ✅️

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     @stavvers But in 3 years, you could have... six deckchairs!

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     Another Angry Woman (stavvers@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 21:01:31 JST Another Angry Woman

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     @Tarbh The other Amazon one that makes me laugh is when it asks if you want to subscribe and save for an object such as a fucking deckchair. No, I do not need to buy a deckchair every six months.

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     BelatedLúnasa Healy-Rae-Nua ✅️ (tarbh@mastodon.ie)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 21:01:32 JST BelatedLúnasa Healy-Rae-Nua ✅️

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     @stavvers Amazon are always at this. "You bought this one specific, very niche thing that will last for years? Here, you should buy one of these other ones!"

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     Another Angry Woman (stavvers@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jul-2023 18:40:51 JST Another Angry Woman

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     A couple of people have been asking about how the whole ~stealing elections~ thing works in the context of this scam and I'm probably going to have to write a follow up working through that, but where I'm at is pretty much that Cambridge Analytica, etc, are very much in the category of their product is making people think they *could* and that the "microtargeting" was wildly, wildly understated.

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     Another Angry Woman (stavvers@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jul-2023 18:40:52 JST Another Angry Woman

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     (not a rickroll, I promise)

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     Another Angry Woman (stavvers@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jul-2023 18:40:53 JST Another Angry Woman

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     I ended up blogging about this in much more detail because I think it's important we talk about this https://anotherangrywoman.com/2023/07/05/scams-upon-scams-the-data-driven-advertising-grift/

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     Stiofán de Buitléir (stiofi@troet.cafe)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 01:15:39 JST Stiofán de Buitléir

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     @stavvers So the value proposition of #Google, #Meta etc. is mostly a con. Always suspected that to be the case.