Norway has succeeded in getting the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) to make permanent and extend across Europe its ban on Meta (Facebook’s parent company) harvesting user data for targeted ads on Facebook and Instagram.

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    1 year ago

    these companies spend a lot of money and computation power on intelligent targeting systems because they are in fact better from a capitalist perspective

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      1 year ago

      Maybe. I guess it makes it easier for Google to sell many different ads in the same time/space. Still sucks for everyone else though.

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        1 year ago

        But people advertise with Google precisely because they know the ads will be targeted at relevent people. If Google just sell loads of ad slots that just show to random users then that’s just a waste of money. If I’m selling motorbike helmets I don’t want to waste my money having Google show those ads to 60 year old men who only travel by bus or golfers or people who use wheelchairs.

        Google won’t just sell loads of ads here, they’ll totally change their business model to something closer to the targetting approach.

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          1 year ago

          You target the ads based on the content of the page rather than the identity of the viewer. That’s how tv radio and print ads work.