otabdeveloper3

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by otabdeveloper3 7y ago
Why would you want to visit sites that aren't Google (c)? They're probably very unsafe and full of very annoying ads!
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by otabdeveloper3 7y ago
Judging by the so-called quote-unquote mobile browsing "experience", they don't.
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by otabdeveloper3 7y ago
Yes. "Free as in freedom".
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by otabdeveloper3 7y ago
Are you reading what I'm writing? No? Let me repeat again. PII is a crutch used for matching, because current matching/segmenting technologies are crude. Advertisers don't want PII. What they want is target audiences with pre
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by otabdeveloper3 7y ago
"Known"? Probably not. Like I said, knowing real identities is the last thing on the list of ad tech priorities. If shadowy entities are collecting "real identities" then it's not for ad purposes.
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by otabdeveloper3 7y ago
> every advertiser I’ve interacted with is either doing individual-level targeting or striving towards it. Only if they're clueless. For example: Nike really wants a dataset of "people who buy expensive sneakers for fashion pur
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by otabdeveloper3 7y ago
There's nothing to whistleblow. Advertising is applied sociology. As such, advertisers want to aggregate large data sets into large segments that are easy to manipulate statistically. (Where the central limit theorem starts working.) T
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by otabdeveloper3 7y ago
"DevOps" == "sysadmin who can program a bit". This in contrast to "sysadmin who can configure your Cisco and your Outlook". The difference is crucial in data centers where you need automation for sysadmin tasks
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by otabdeveloper3 7y ago
Testing "Linux server architectures" without considering keepalive is worse than useless.