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data collected by apps doesn’t invade my privacy

Sorry, i’m really at a loss here. I don’t understand. App data is used to make you transparent. To learn something about you to sell advertisements and show them to exactly those people who are the most likely to be influenced by it. This is how targeted advertisement works.

You’re right. You’re not ‘harmed’ in a traditional meaning of the word. You’re just being manipulated. And so are millions of other people on the internet.

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SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It isn’t used to make anything of me at all. You don’t seem to understand how this data is collected, aggregated and sold.

Literally no one has a profile on me specifically. Relevant bits of data are captured and filtered and packaged and sold without any human interaction.

There is no database entry for you as a person.

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- rufus@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  How do you think TikTok recommends videos you like? How do you think YouTube shows you videos about astronomy or diy-stuff or whatever you like and omit the videos about kajaking? How do you think amazon recommends you similar items or shows you what you bought in the last 6 months?
  
  They all have a specific profile for you as a preson. It doesn’t really matter if they don’t file it with your real name as a key. It may be called a number or just contain your email address. Nonetheless it get’s loaded and used when you open your browser, when you log in to those services. And don’t tell me you have 20 google accounts, clear your cookies and have all the browser extensions installed to evade all of that.
  
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  - SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    TikTok recommends me stand-up comedy and thicc goth girls because that’s what I’ve swiped on. Every now and then MTG card reviews pop up because I think that dude is funny.
    
    I’m not a child, so I’m capable of curating shit I watch
    
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    rufus@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    TikTok recommends me […]
    
    So they must have a database entry specifically for you. Otherwise they couldn’t recommend you anything after you closed the app.
    
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