https://twitter.com/stevekrenzel/status/1589700721121058817
Holy shit this thread.
https://twitter.com/stevekrenzel/status/1589700731480989696
https://twitter.com/stevekrenzel/status/1589700733808840704
https://twitter.com/stevekrenzel/status/1589700735008374784
https://twitter.com/stevekrenzel/status/1589700736207949824
https://twitter.com/stevekrenzel/status/1589700737407549440
JFC
https://twitter.com/jasontoff/status/1589990878281490432
And another thread. This one less surprising.
oh great, 2016 is the gift that keeps on giving
I had read that guys story the other day (wasn’t on twitter) but was pretty damning for all social media.
https://twitter.com/stevekrenzel/status/1589700728708554752?s=46&t=ehu9sTmpLCycbdEmCeo12A
this is a whole field of study in large-scale sites like this. the logs get unruly. it’s terrabytes upon terrabytes. most of it is noise too.
dude this is a wild story. how credible is this guy?
https://twitter.com/stevekrenzel/status/1589700736207949824?s=46&t=ehu9sTmpLCycbdEmCeo12A
you should assume most apps, especially tiktok and facebook, are doing this to an INSANE degree.
apple allows you some control around your data on your device and seems to be the last bastion of hope there but you should just immediately assume all your data is up for whatever any time you use a site in the US ever because there are practically zero laws, we are in the wild west
i dunno. i never used the twitter app, but under 10MB seems like a dirty stinking lie. although he is correct that a huge majority of apps collect and sell the type of data that director was talking about. i asked for the same thing at one of my jobs from our own app devs.
He was quote tweeted by Jason Toff - the blue check guy above who also worked for Twitter (assuming).
and they can share data with each other pretty freely too - nothing you do on your phone is unknown. I corrupt my data on purpose by responding to surveys dishonestly and seeding my activity with pure nonsense. you should see the ads I get. it’s my magnum opus
Wtf good is this stuff? Will it make me buy more Heinz ketchup?
True story. 2 weeks ago I bought $200 worth of stuff from brooks brothers (big and tall stuff, which they do well, on sale). Since then I have seen like 100 brooks bros web ads. Whatever they made on my purchases they have burned advertising to me. I mean are there clothes-addicted people who turn this into a net positive spend for them? I doubt it.
I also just bought a $30 nonstick frying pan from Amazon. Am awaiting the deluge.
Same thing happened to me with brooks brothers
This stuff is so dystopian - a friend asked me over facebook messenger if I’d seen the Game of Thrones spinoff. I said I had no interest. The next two weeks my facebook, instagram, youtube were all SATURATED with clips/ads from that show.
that’s kinda on you. if you just stop fighting the algorithm and reply to your friend that you’ve already spent all your money on got memorabilia, you’d be left alone by microtargeting.
Reply that you’re thinking of going to Alphacon and let the hilarity ensue.
I once clicked on every disruptive mattress add in my FB feed just to see how far it would go. I gave up after clicking on 60 different companies trying to sell me a mattress over the internet.
also a good thing to mention to your friends in DMs.
Isn’t that all the same guy?
You know you would just quiver and collapse in the presence of any of those WOLVES.
Seems to me that putting all those alphas in the same place is downright dangerous!
