• stockRot@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    But what does your company do with this data? You put me on an email list, but if you have my spam only email… Then what? What do I stand to lose by your company doing research on me?

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        9 months ago

        It sounds like everyone already has all that info, and all they seem to do with it is recommend gifts my mom would like based on her search history.

        I get targeted political ads, but who cares about those? I don’t form my opinion based on ads.

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            9 months ago

            It’s pretty easy for ads, they’re clearly labeled and anything in an advertisement is propaganda with little merit.

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              9 months ago

              Ah, who among us hasn’t been through an “I’m not influenced by propaganda because I know it’s propaganda (even if it’s granularly targeted to my biases)” phase? Many of us never get past it. I hope you manage to.

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                9 months ago

                We’re on Lemmy, formerly of Reddit. We sling propaganda at each other for fun, you think the Moms for America PAC can outdo the constant scrum on the politics subs?

                If you think I’m wrong, please offer more than just “(((They))) have all your info and will ‘propaganda’ you, it’s very scary and you’ll never know it’s happening!”

                It sounds like fearmongering to me

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                  9 months ago

                  Sorry, what’s your argument here? That you’re immune to propaganda because you’re exposed to so much of it? Maybe that you’re immune to propaganda that you (presumably) disagree with, like Moms for America, because you ingest so much propaganda that matches your existing opinions (political subs/communities)?

                  What about consumer propaganda (i.e. marketing/advertising)? Do you think your purchasing decisions are influenced by brand awareness and other marketing effects?

                  Genuinely trying to understand what you’re trying to say here.

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                    9 months ago

                    My argument isn’t that I’m immune to propaganda, it’s that Google, Amazon, and however many other unknown data hoarders have all my info already and aren’t using it for anything important.

                    If anything, it’s helpful. I got a suggested news article for some new research into my chronic condition, in it were targeted ads:

                    • Some sort of dental credit card

                    • A “smart” ring

                    • Xfinity

                    • Instacart

                    I don’t use any of those, congrats on spending money harvesting all my data to give me ads for products I won’t use.

                    I’m sure my purchasing habits are influenced by advertisers, especially new purchases into an area I don’t know, power tools, for example. I’ve definitely started my research into purchases with “that brand I’ve heard of before”.

                    But people in this thread are acting like AdSense is sewing my eyes open and mind controlling me into sending them my bank account details.

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      9 months ago

      My job specifically? Probably nothing major except for some spam. We dont sell our customers info like a lot of places do. If we did then, the profile we have on you could be cross referenced with other companies and build a more complete profile on you. Allowing less scrupulous people to infer and fill in the blanks on the missing info for you and try to profit off that.

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      9 months ago

      What do I stand to lose by your company doing research on me?

      Nothing really. Most people are fine with it, and it’s ok if you’re fine with it too.

      For me it’s just the principle. Honestly my life would be more enjoyable if I could just switch this off but I fucking hate advertising. It really, really bothers me on an uncomfortable level. Basically, I want to choose the products and services I’m interested in engaging with at any time, I do not want products and services to be proposed to me.