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OriginalGriff18-May-21 21:17
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dandy7219-May-21 4:30
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OriginalGriff wrote:
Using IP based Geolocation - and why it's pretty much useless.[^]


Hence the scam that is "big data". They collect so much information about you, yet make fundamental mistakes that bring into question all of its validity. Of course those who sell this data to advertisers don't want them to realize that.

The classic example...you buy something from Amazon, then suddenly you start seeing all sorts of ads for that thing. Well, it's already too late to start your marketing campaign, the item's already been bought.

I don't exactly consider myself to be the type who goes out of his way to evade tracking. However I'd really curious to see the profile companies like Google and Microsoft have managed to build based on what they've collected from me. Because none of the ads I still see are any more valuable to me than a random ad in a newspaper, which has no idea who the reader is.

Let them all waste their money.
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