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by Spivak 1851 days ago
Yes and people’s whole careers are built on maintaining that fiction that they’re meaningfully different.

We sent you this ad because we know you like hentai and “we asked Google to look through their data and show ads to hentai watchers” is a distinction without a difference when it’s equally uncomfortable that Google is looking at this information as it would be for Google’s clients.
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viro 1851 days ago
You know the "we" is google right?! the company provides google an AD and how they want to target it. Then google serves that AD
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Spivak 1851 days ago
Yes? The difference between hentaidirect.com buying your data and analyzing it, then buying ad space and serving you an ad based on your search history and hentaidirect.con asking Google to do the same on their behalf is the same to me. In both cases I have an entity who is a stranger looking through my search history to serve me ads.
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