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In some of the music communities I'm in the content creators are already telling their userbase to go follow them on threads. They're all talking about some kind of beef between Elon and Mark and the possibility of a boxing match... Mark was right to call the people he's leaching off of fucking idiots.

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[–] Beardliest 37 points 1 year ago (13 children)

It is. They know everything about you. Even every store you have shopped at knows a lot about you. It really doesn’t take much interaction for a company to get a lot of info. It’s relatively easy to get an email and from there, if they wanted, they can get the rest of your profile from a 3rd party who has your data all matched up already. They can also build your profile pretty easily themselves as well.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

How can regular people buy this data?

Say I wanted to find out what my profile looks like?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I imagine "you" can't

you'd likely have to work for some marketing agency and can probably only buy user data in bulk amounts (based on region, or some other desired demographic) with a recurring business plan of course

it wouldn't be financially beneficial for these companies to sell an individual thumbprint

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

That makes sense.

So who wants to set up an marketing agency with me?

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