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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
On 1, the only advantage you have over anyone in any interaction is what he doesn't know about you (or doesn't know about something important that you do know about). To collect data on someone is to develop a dossier, which allows you to understand him better, and to what end would anyone want to do that? To control what he does. To get him to buy something, or vote for something, or scare him into not saying or doing something.
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You've worked out a nice argument, but I don't agree that trying to sell you thing more efficiently by knowing what you like is trying to control you.
We go through life as it is with lost of people trying to sell us stuff or get us to vote for something or say or do something. Most of it is noise, because we don't give a flying fuck about it. That's wasteful. Both of your time and of the advertisers time.
Getting rid of that waste through better targeting doesn't really bother me. In no small part because I can still say no (or at least I still believe I can say no, if you want to believe in some of the stronger theories on the effects of advertising).
As long as I retain the power to avoid the targets and the ads, I'm not particularly concerned.
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You give a person, or an organization, access to enough info to draw a rough caricature of your personality and you are forever weakened.
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Perhaps if you see all human interactions as zero-sum.
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Re 2, the only digital places I'm forthcoming with details of what I'm thinking or doing, in any regard, are ones in which you don't know me by name.
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Any moderately talented hacker could break that pretty quickly, or so I'm told.
