The ecosystem of targeted ads and recommendation algorithms based on profiling users is broken, because tracking users is easy but analyzing data is difficult (apenwarr)

apenwarr:
The ecosystem of targeted ads and recommendation algorithms based on profiling users is broken, because tracking users is easy but analyzing data is difficult  —  I don't mind letting your programs see my private data as long as I get something useful in exchange.  But that's not what happens.

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