▲ 1029 ▼ Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams says company targeted teens with advertisements based on their ‘emotional state’ (techcrunch.com) submitted 1 year ago* by dwazou@jlai.lu to c/technology@lemmy.world 83 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] orcrist@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago (2 children) Lemmy is far from normal, it is not profitable as a social media platform and is reliant on donations and generosity. Google AdSense does similar things to meta, as does amazon. This is far from a misuse, of the technology as that implies that this isn't accomplishing the intended goal, which, aside from laws trying to differentiate children from adults, it does. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago Neither google (at least for the first decade or so) or Amazon have such detailed data about you as facebook permalink fedilink source parent [–] Paper_Phrog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago Yeah, sorry, but while still going too far, these companies get dwarved by meta when it comes to these practices. I work with certain advertising platforms and know it inside out (don't judge me lol). No way can we target based on emotional state or anything even closely resmlembling that. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago (2 children) Lemmy is far from normal, it is not profitable as a social media platform and is reliant on donations and generosity. Google AdSense does similar things to meta, as does amazon. This is far from a misuse, of the technology as that implies that this isn't accomplishing the intended goal, which, aside from laws trying to differentiate children from adults, it does. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago Neither google (at least for the first decade or so) or Amazon have such detailed data about you as facebook permalink fedilink source parent [–] Paper_Phrog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago Yeah, sorry, but while still going too far, these companies get dwarved by meta when it comes to these practices. I work with certain advertising platforms and know it inside out (don't judge me lol). No way can we target based on emotional state or anything even closely resmlembling that. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago Neither google (at least for the first decade or so) or Amazon have such detailed data about you as facebook permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Paper_Phrog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago Yeah, sorry, but while still going too far, these companies get dwarved by meta when it comes to these practices. I work with certain advertising platforms and know it inside out (don't judge me lol). No way can we target based on emotional state or anything even closely resmlembling that. permalink fedilink source parent