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These are the privacy permissions that you grant for Meta's new twitter competitor (yiffit.net)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They can't identify particular and specific interests, but they definitely can predict trends on consumer behaviour. I don't think Google wants your data to predict when you will want Thai. That's preposterous.

They are reaping billions on ad revenue, it definitely works, it won't forever, but it does at the moment.