[trollied]

A colleague created a banner ad that was an image that had the text “told you I could do this mate!” and targeted an individual to prove a point.

The general public have no idea how much ad providers and data brokers know about them.

[rvnx]

Seems just like retargeting in that case. Ask “victim” to visit page A. On that page A place a retargeting pixel, then now everywhere on the Internet you can display a message for that user as long as you are willing to pay a high price for that impression (high price is way way way less than 0.1 USD)

[lyton]

Reminds me of the time when Signal(the private messaging app) once tried to get ad data from Facebook and show it to users with a high degree of specificity eg “You got this ad because you’re a middle aged woman who enjoys kpop and loves reading about Christopher Nolan”

Relevant article: http://archive.today/fzUL4

[rustcleaner]

I need you to tell me how I do this right now. This will put so much cred into my spiels with people in meatspace. So many bricks will be shat!

[bombcar]

Here’s a write up: https://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking...

It’s harder to do this now, but think a bit - set the net wider and catch a few more, who cares! All you care is your target gets hit.