Isnt that already happening to lesser degree with facebook, instagram, twitter? possibly reddit?
People are in their circles and if someone has an alternate view it's seen as trolling
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People are in their circles and if someone has an alternate view it's seen as trolling
I have no hard data on this, but it seems like there's a lot less zoomers on twitter than there are millennials. I've heard secondhand that zoomers tend to prefer smaller/"private" groups like Discord rather than the giant pools like twitter.
From my experience, that seems true. And really it's not hard to see why. Twitter is just a gigantic trashfire hellscape that's dominated by "bad vibes". I know most of the US is brainwashed niggercattle, but even for them, there's only so much constant negativity you can take for days and years before you start getting naturally repelled from it.
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I once made the mistake of Googling around for vacuum cleaners, and then made the second mistake of clicking on one of the ads to go to a vacuum cleaner site.
Now Google is apparently convinced that I'm the "vacuum cleaner guy", and that one vacuum cleaner is not enough and that all I want to buy ever again is vacuum cleaners, and that when I'm scanning through the newsfeed on a lunch break what I'd really rather be doing is planning my next vacuum cleaner purchase.
If it's not linked to your account, just try clearing cookies.
Also I have ghost memories of there being a way to wipe your ad data (thanks GDPR). Obviously the button isn't "real" in that they'll still have it all, but you'll probably stop seeing those ads.
It is linked to my Google account, yes. And I would look into clearing the data but I still find it too amusing.
Good, let them think that.
Yeah, I'm being a little biased here. But there's some more evidence for it.
When this article first came out, I thought it was an exaggeration. But as time goes on, I've been seeing more and more that there's a lot of fuckery and there is a lot of truth here.
For example, this:
Happens ALL the fucking time to this day. I've specifically asked people to stop doing this and they don't want to do it, and they actually hide the fact that they are doing this so much unless you really dig into raw data, which they don't like. If really pressed, they will call it "defending the brand". Which I think there is some small amount of value in, but for the most part they are doing it to make their metrics look better.
Another thing is that digital advertising has its own set of metrics that aren't exactly common sense. Let's say that you launch a campaign for x product. How do you measure the success of the campaign? It's the sales for x product, right? Like if the sales increase, it worked, right? WRONG! you actually want to measure its success by a bunch of other bullshit that's couched in a million caveats about what the data actually means. At least one network reports on the sales for a campaign by just reporting the total sales in a period of weeks for anything you are selling that the customer who blocked on an ad bought. So for example you run a campaign for shoelaces and someone clicks on that ad. Then two weeks later they randomly buy a cabinet you're selling, but it has nothing to do with the ad for shoelaces, your just selling the cabinet really cheap and it showed up on a discount site. The ad network now reports that the campaign was an amazing success because that customer bought $500 of something after clicking on an ad two weeks ago. Big tech makes it sound like they can perfectly track this person's intent through the shopping journey, but if they can, they're not showing that at all, they are showing this rudimentary ass shit. I could give a million examples of this kind of thing.
This is incentivized at every level. Companies know they need to do "something" with digital ads. Digital ad agencies know that companies don't know what they are doing and think big tech is performing a bunch of magic. The few people that do know, their jobs depend on these things performing anyway so they go along with it. And yeah, they do work to some extent... all this stuff works. It just doesn't work nearly as well as is claimed. They want to say you are getting 10x return when in reality it is probably more like 2.5x. I'd also surmise that the returns have been diminishing over time; in the early to middle days of the internet, these things were probably more effective than they are right now. But everybody still wants those juicy gainz and the ad industry is happy to tell you that you can have them. Just don't look too close.
P&G Pulls Away From Some Digital Ads, Talks Traditional Plans.
Procter and Gamble is bucking the trend of brands shifting large swaths of their marketing budgets to digital media. The world’s largest advertiser cut more than $100 million in digital
Pretty amusing anecdote, I've had very similar experiences. The almighty Facebook was tricked by me.. changing my gender and job description. Then it marketed me a bunch of shit related to that gender and job. Amazing! So glad they recorded what I ate for lunch 5 years ago so they could specifically target me with their amazing technology.
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I believe that the internet has a memetic agent that infects people with autism.
Is really weird how in less than 5 years the autistic population grew so much they could infiltrate government institutions and private companies. Not to mention degeneracy like troons, BLM, furries and the like.
Is really weird how in less than 5 years the autistic population grew so much they could infiltrate government institutions and private companies. Not to mention degeneracy like troons, BLM, furries and the like.
It's already happened
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Searching for some French books on ebay for a couple of days caused Google to think I was a middle aged French man - and the thing that I, as a middle aged French man, needs more than anything is an arab mail order bride. It lasted for months - if I happened to get an ad that came through on my mobile, it was almost always in French and maybe half that time about how I needed an arab wife.
HAH!
I like that one.
FTFY
Christ, man, that's like Rule #1 of the internet: never click the ads.
Google is convinced that I am a diabetic 70 year old white woman who spoils her grandchildren.
Why? Because I googled a diabeetus medication for my uncle once like 3 years ago.
One thing you have to remember is that money is not the goal, the goal is control. All that data they collect helps them shape and target propaganda and narrative more effectively. Advertising is barely an afterthought when you have the mechanisms to deliver votes and reshape narratives.
There is genuine proof over time of this theory being true, as people noticed that during a somewhat recent outage for Google Code that posting activity and thread creation on /pol/ dropped by a lot during the few hours GC was down. The botting is a way to try and force genuine people to think their way and for some reason they keep sinking cash into 4changanistan.
Why 4chan of all places? That place's creatively bankrupt.
That's because the people posting on /pol/ all work at Google, and when the outage hit they had to scramble and do some actual work.
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This is truly horrific stuff here.
How can you start a thread like this and even be so retarded? Do you not understand the implications of this? The whole purpose is to drown out real human voices and create a "creatively bankrupt" atmosphere that is boring and no one wants to engage with.
They did that with /pol/
It didn't used to be, newfag.
How can you start a thread like this and even be so retarded? Do you not understand the implications of this? The whole purpose is to drown out real human voices and create a "creatively bankrupt" atmosphere that is boring and no one wants to engage with.
They did that with /pol/
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holy shit imagine being this dumb
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