Wow, that is incredibly annoying! I can’t imagine they wouldn’t get forced to take it down.

Great idea, but the money they have is barely enough to make a dent in the development scope they are aiming for.

FYI, this is an attempt at humour, clearly “/s” is needed on lemmy as much as it was on reddit 😅

What would be the probability of u/spez being behind this attack, in an attempt to sabotage lemmy?

Thanks for the reminder, I still had one of those messages waiting for me…

Same! As an introvert it is not easy though.

While I agree that advertisers go much too far, the 650k labels figure used here is a bit manipulative. They make it seem like the advertisers have 650k different bits of information on everyone, but clearly they don’t.

The examples they provide of labels show that they are combinations of multiple things. For example they show a label “France + Land Rover”, which really are two different bits of information combined into one label. If they would have an exhaustive list of all countries (about 200) and the most popular car brands (let’s say about 20), that would be around 4000 labels, or 0.6% of the 650k labels. If they add a third characteristic, that number would explode.

We are exploring unknown depths of beans here!

Am I the only one who thinks of maggots when I see this? Thank you, you have ruined my pooping time.