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Re: [Link Posting] Your Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers You Know Nothing About

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On 2019-05-13, Bruce Horrocks <07.013@scorecrow.com> wrote:
> On 13/05/2019 07:14, Mike Spencer wrote:
>> Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> writes:
>> 
>>> People putting trackers on my phone will discover that I spend too much
>>> time at McDonald's. They won't learn much else.
>>>
>>> Perhaps I'll start receiving advertisements for coronary-bypass surgeons.
>> 
>> And weight loss pills. And militant vegans/vegetarians.  And Burger
>> King & KFC.  And Large Woman fashion vendors. And of course McDonalds
>> itself.
>> 
>
> Most companies, and McDonalds is a good example, have a very limited 
> product range, with no real choice for the customer. Basically the 
> customer takes it or leaves it. And that's great - McDonalds are not 
> impoverished and customers seem to like it.
>
> Car manufacturers are similar. You might be able to choose your paint 
> colour but you can't choose for example, to take the performance braking 
> system from the performance model of any given car but with the 
> non-performance engine, because you favour safety.
>
> Your choices are limited to what the manufacturer provides. So why do 
> online advertisers feel the need to sub-divide the public into ever 
> smaller, more 'precise' categories?
>
> Which product is it that will sell to 5th generation first-nation 
> heritage Pontiac driving males that won't sell to 5th generation, 
> first-nation heritage Ford driving males?
>
> Eventually advertisers will recognise this lunacy 

I wouldn't bank on it. I worked with Marketing a lot at ${MEGABANK} and
they were ... odd.

-- 
I don't have an attitude problem.  If you have a problem with my
              attitude, that's your problem.

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[Link Posting] Your Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers You Know Nothing About Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-05-11 16:12 +0000
  Re: [Link Posting] Your Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers You Know Nothing About Batchman <batchman@dosville.foo> - 2019-05-11 21:13 +0000
    Re: [Link Posting] Your Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers You Know Nothing About RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-05-11 21:06 -0400
      Re: [Link Posting] Your Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers You Know Nothing About ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2019-05-11 22:55 -0500
  Re: [Link Posting] Your Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers You Know Nothing About Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-05-12 15:17 +1000
    Re: [Link Posting] Your Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers You  Know Nothing About Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2019-05-13 03:14 -0300
      Re: [Link Posting] Your Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers You Know Nothing About Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-05-13 17:25 +1000
      Re: [Link Posting] Your Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers You Know Nothing About Bruce Horrocks <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2019-05-13 12:35 +0100
        Re: [Link Posting] Your Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers You Know Nothing About Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-05-13 14:15 +0000
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      Re: [Link Posting] Your Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers You Know Nothing About Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-05-14 00:23 +0000
      Re: [Link Posting] Your Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers You Know Nothing About Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2019-05-14 00:24 +0000
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