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What the fuck is wrong with people?
Why do people care? Well, why do you close the door to the bathroom? Why dont you send me a picture of yourself right now ("What could I do with it anyway"?)
Some people care more about privacy than others. And most people simply don't know where all their data really goes.
I mean what is wrong with they to think they should know what kind of depravity I'm into. Some messed up jabronys in this world.
You know how they use facial recognition to kill people in the middle east? It's the same idea here.
Yeah, it’s advertising. They want to be able to sell you clothes you’ll probably actually wear, video games you’ll actually play, etc. They probably don’t care about your google spell checks as much as they care about what posts you’re liking on your Instagram reels.
On one hand, it sucks to not really have that privacy. On the other hand, people act like if you don’t use a VPN for every single online service today that in 5 years data brokers will sell your exact address to the Islamic Jihad for ten dollars.
The Google spell checks are probably pretty big too because it gives them info on what you're thinking/writing about in that moment.
Well, true for some words. OP checking out how to spell “consistently” and me trying to figure out effect/affect for a specific case…. Probably less so.
Actually, both of those are indicative of educational attainment, social philosophy, probably political leaning….
video games you’ll actually play
Goodness, me. I wish. Steam sure is good at selling me games that make me feel like I really want to have that experience though! Once it's bought, they did their job.
I've yet to see any ads for "How to spend time enjoying a thing just for yourself without feeling guilty and anxious that you're being left socioeconomically behind and the next (un)planned economic downturn will ruin everything for sure this time."
So... y'know they could be doing a better job. Lol
Also $10 is $10... nobody's personally selling it, it's just floating around and it could be bought if the Islamic Jihad wanted it LOL.
I'm more concerned about things like, selling my data like vehicle usage or DNA to insurance companies who would use that data against me.
Cool. Now I can subtly influence you to pay for your free use MILF porn. Or use MILF models in your ads to make you more likely to buy shit.
Even if you don't think you can be influenced by that stuff it still likely to change your behaviour just enough, even just 5% more spending which makes it worthwhile to them.
But honestly your data barely matters on its own. But once it's merged with everyone else's....that's when it's valuable.
individually, not important, together with a mass of collected data, over time, patterns emerge, those patterns can be everything from people, and people within your demographic, age, sex, location, race, education level, marital status, relationship status, and THAT is invaluable to corporations (and governments) in figuring out what to sell, how to sell it, and who to sell it to.
they say knowledge is power, and that's just what all this data from billions of different sources gives others, an overview of human interaction with each other, technology, and most importantly the things that motivate them to act.
Because the data is worth quite a bit of money - more than people realise, otherwise these companies would be paying us for it.