• stockRot@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    But what does your company do with this data? You put me on an email list, but if you have my spam only email… Then what? What do I stand to lose by your company doing research on me?

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        8 months ago

        It sounds like everyone already has all that info, and all they seem to do with it is recommend gifts my mom would like based on her search history.

        I get targeted political ads, but who cares about those? I don’t form my opinion based on ads.

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            8 months ago

            It’s pretty easy for ads, they’re clearly labeled and anything in an advertisement is propaganda with little merit.

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      8 months ago

      My job specifically? Probably nothing major except for some spam. We dont sell our customers info like a lot of places do. If we did then, the profile we have on you could be cross referenced with other companies and build a more complete profile on you. Allowing less scrupulous people to infer and fill in the blanks on the missing info for you and try to profit off that.