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Why are tech company's so interested in my boring ass data? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Daft_ish@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Like why do they care how many times I go to porn hub every day or that nothing gets me harder than a free use MILF? Why do they care that I don't know how to spell consistency so I have to Google it every 3 months.

What the fuck is wrong with people?

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[–] assa123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 152 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

It is not about having your particular data. Is about the aggregated data of a population. On a shallow level that information can be used to engineer ads to appeal to a greater audience. On a deeper level, population dynamics can be used for nefarious purposes such as driving them to an agreement that wasn't in their best interest. Brexit and the Trump election are two examples of this being possible thanks to data from Cambridge Analytica. See voting paradoxes and Asimov's psychohistory that each day is getting farther from fictional.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 52 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Oh, so evil shit.

It's just sureal to me. Since they know I was up till 2:00am on a Wednesday wrenching my hog like there was a million dollars hidden inside Donald Trump was elected president.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 24 points 7 months ago

[–] livus@kbin.social 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Basically knowledge of us is power over us.

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

'You've already given up your shit. I'm still a mystery to you.' - Drexel, True Romance

[–] Marafon@sh.itjust.works 15 points 7 months ago

Absolute poetry.

[–] strawberry@kbin.run 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

okay wrenching my hog is a new one lmao

[–] viking@infosec.pub 5 points 7 months ago

Yep, I only knew wrestle the chicken yet.

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago

Not to dispute your general points, but Cambridge Analytica’s actual effectiveness was shown to have been way overblown (as was RussiaGate in general).