Google enables advertisers a look into your browsing history…

  • jemorgan@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    If someone is swayed by instructions to kill themselves, they are, be definition, consuming content they desire.

    That’s a bad argument. Marketing is one thing, manipulation is totally different.

    There’s nothing specifically wrong with marketing in general, but marketers with access to enormous amounts of private information blur the line between advertising and manipulation. Using people’s private information to each individual exactly what they want to hear about a candidate without regard to the truth is absolutely something that we should be concerned about.

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      1 year ago

      If you can be manipulated by a targeted ad you were already into that.

      No normal person stumbles across Andrew Tate on YouTube due to an algorithm and thinks, “This man is my savior.”

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        1 year ago

        You’ve got a naive definition of ‘normal’.

        I’d say that the vast majority of people who stumble across a curated Andrew Tate clip and think that the very carefully selected soundbite resonates with them are “normal.”

        That’s the issue with deeply personalized targeted marketing. People get presented with a representation of something that isn’t accurate. Instead, it’s tightly tailored to be agreeable, which can result in “normal” people forming positive sentiments towards things that they’d absolutely disagree with if they were presented with a truthful representation.

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          1 year ago

          No man I’d say you are the one with the skewed definition of “normal”

          I know 0 people who would buy into that dudes horseshit