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	▲	PaulHoule 2 hours ago
		I know there is evidence like `Apple ATT (iOS 14.5, April 2021). 15-25% opt-in. -$10B Meta revenue in 2022 (CFO David Wehner)` But it sure looks to me like personalized ads are a paper tiger. I mean it seems like 30% of the ads I see on Facebook and YouTube are just transparent scams that they could serve me without any profiling. For instance for a week I have been in heavy rotation of an ad on Facebook which obviously looks like a crude attempt to imitate a notification in the Facebook API. After I click on it the page starts playing sound and tries to scare me that my computer has been hacked and I have to take some action. I reported the ad to Facebook but it shouldn't have stayed up a whole week, for all I know somebody is still seeing it. It's so rare that I see an ad that is targeted to me at all so what gives? Am I really so unmarketable to? It's not like i don't buy cameras, food, clothes, video games, and all sorts of things. But all i see is retargeted ads for stuff I already bought.
	▲	johannes1234321 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The fact that some people receive badly targeted ads isn't a prove for the surveillance system not working. The question regarding ads is how well targeted campaigns are being paid for. But the ad space is relatively harmless. It becomes relevant when not talking about ads, but surpression of citizens by state actors. If the data is being used to identified potential targets for some measures. These measures can involve drawing election districts, deciding where to build the sewage plant or library or where search for people to deport and how to influence them in political campaigns. Some margin of error has varying impact there, but it can help a lot to reduce manual selection by a lot.
	▲	sosborn 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		> all i see is retargeted ads for stuff I already bought. IMO, nothing exposes the folly behind targeted ads as much as this.
	▲	gherkinnn an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I have come to believe, based on little other than my limited experience, that the targeting does not matter. Facebook provides users with virtual crack. User pays for the high with attention. This attention is sold off to the highest bidder. The contents of the ad is irrelevant, the data harvested is used to make the crack ever more potent.
	▲	downrightmike an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		10% of meta earnings last year were from scammers using their AI on meta users through ads. It doesn't make sense that they are allowing it, except it is making them billions. So what if millions of americans lose everything? Shareholder algo bots like the way it looks
	▲	rng-concern an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I used to report scams to facebook, but they deny my claim and say the ads are fine. Seems like fake AI videos of celebrities/politicians asking you to invest in alt-coins is A-OK in facebooks... book. It's infuriating.