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by flir 217 days ago
I'd bet a chunk of cash that it's segmenting people, at least initially. And the "gender A" segment are seeing the ads that are popular with the "gender B" segment at a far lower rate, or not at all.

So it's not an individual's revealed preferences, it's a group's revealed preferences. And that's where the discrimination comes in.