This is satire, no?<p>more funny examples: <a href="https://www.thespinner.net/packages" rel="nofollow">https://www.thespinner.net/packages</a><p>e.g. "Message: Get your kid a dog! Target: Mom/Dad".
If this isn't a joke thats messed up. If your not having the sex life you want with your SO figure out why generally there is something wrong in the relationship and fix it.<p>Is SO just tired and dead at the end of the day? Help them more, delegate out anything that you can to 3rd party services (not as expensive as you would think).<p>The obvious one, send the kids somewhere, go out on date.<p>That all being said. if this real i highly doubt it even works.
I hope this is satire.
If not, the fact that anyone could think this a) works, and b) is a good way to get more intimate time with their SO, makes me very sad.<p>This line from Heavens to Betsy never felt more relevant to me, if this story is true: "You wanna know how I feel? You could never just ask me"
This smells of satire maybe even something to spread awareness about tracking and targeted ads.
I'm not even sure how this should work and how people would react to seeing so many suggestions I would be confused and annoyed mostly. "Funny" idea nonetheless even thought it wouldn't work for me and my wife (adblocker anyone?). Would be interesting for advertisers how well adds really work.<p>Anyway in the spirit of this article I will now order naptime <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF_nfazQaek" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF_nfazQaek</a>
Fascinating. I don't know if this company's claims are real, the journalist was so offended she didn't do a full test of the service, but aquaintance manipulation by way of surveillance/targeted content will certainly find a market.<p>The tools of Infowar available for personal use. Newsfeed manipulation, psy ops, personalized propaganda, targeting your boss for a raise, targeting a competitor into a mistake, a teen targeting his parents so they be more lenient, parents targeting their kids to nudge them in a wanted direction, etc.
This is a ridiculous example but the weaponization risks for adtech are interesting to contemplate. Do ad networks take any steps to verify who is placing ads?
Hahaha, this "journalist".<p><pre><code> What my investigation found
Perhaps my cynical, journalistic spidey sense is awry
As someone who is half-Israeli, lives in Tel Aviv, and speaks Hebrew, I take personal offense to this sketchy operation
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Someone should tell him about satire.
> “We should all be thanking the Valley Bros that made The Spinner – it might just be what it takes for folks to sit up and take note of (a) how this crap works (b) what it is designed to do (c) how fucked up it all is,” Aral Balkan, a self-described cyborg rights activist, added. “The Spinner is surveillance capitalism in its purest… The Spinner is surveillance capitalism’s Martin Shkreli moment.”<p>Well, that's an interesting choice of example, because Shkreli went to jail and nothing much else has changed (in fact the Trump administration is talking about forcing prices up outside the US too).