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EFF Calls for Ban on Behavioural Advertising

38 pointsby dannyobrienabout 3 years ago

2 comments

jmoleabout 3 years ago
Just wait until eye&#x2F;face-tracking becomes a pervasive thing in VR&#x2F;AR.<p>It&#x27;s not just &quot;hey, we saw that you were looking at this a lot, so you must be interested&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s also, &quot;User #8187489923323 has recently and consistently expressed slight disappointment when looking at their reflection in the mornings - the next time this happens, play an ad for the latest antidepressant tailored to their demographic with their favorite song in the background&quot;
Supermanchoabout 3 years ago
Online retail companies will never stop collecting and leveraging first party data - their own users making purchases on their own sites.