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CU Medallion [66026]
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The paranoia thread
Aug 6, 2018, 9:52 AM
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So, I am not a reactionary, but I recalled Tiggity® posting one time he was discussing something and what he discussed popped up as an ad. Welp, was talking toa coworker on Friday about test-driving a very specific model of Hyundai (fire-proofed, amirite zettner ?) SUre enough when I opened up Facebook. There was an ad for that same car.
ANyone know how to turn that ability off ?
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Oculus Spirit [81019]
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you can't turn off the matrix
Aug 6, 2018, 9:54 AM
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you'll cease to exist
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He's not wrong
Aug 6, 2018, 9:57 AM
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All-TigerNet [11019]
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Data Science is an amazing thing.
Aug 6, 2018, 10:00 AM
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Say I know you read tigernet. I can make an inference that you likely would be interested in Clemson Merchandise.
Now, say I know you have visited amazon and looked at butt plugs. And then you went to facebook and logged into WSB, then clicked on an ad for an Anker Charging block, and son and so forth...
Over time, that builds up. Imagine that instead of just one day, there was 7 years' worth of behavioral information. Now imagine that is aggregated over millions and millions of people. Eventually, all that happens is that behavioral patterns get linked to certain ad purchases.
The computing power it would take to listen to everybody's phone 24/7 doesn't exist, and the secondary problem of the network bandwidth to constantly record and upload is too much to overcome for them to use it to market things to you, when they can just as easily track your behavior online and make wicked good guesses based on your purchasing and browsing history - hell target can figure out your girl is pregnant based on her purchases before she even knows.
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Heisman Winner [105518]
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So are you saying that Clemson themed buttplugs exist with
Aug 6, 2018, 10:03 AM
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charging capability? Would LOVE to have something a little more portable.
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Heisman Winner [135560]
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Our Digital Strategy Director is supposed to be setting up a
Aug 6, 2018, 11:23 AM
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trip to go tour Clemson's social media listening center based on the Radian6 platform sometime before the end of the year. This is amazing stuff.
https://www.clemson.edu/cbshs/departments/communication/centers/smlc.html
We've been vetting a possibly even better technology than Radian6 (which got scooped up by Salesforce) called Banjo.
https://ban.jo/
You wanna see something REALLY cool? Our Google rep recently told us to go look at this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd1mEm2Fy08
I'm here to tell you...the Big Brother stuff you aren't even aware exists might blow your mind. We currently use a location-based marketing product that knows where you go with your phone and serves ads based on specific geofenced locations. part of my job these days is vetting the 'Big Brother' technologies. It's freaking amazing what is coming, and the level of accuracy is somewhat scary. Your overview of data science is doesn't even begin to describe the tools that advertising firms are bringing to market in the VERY near future.
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All-TigerNet [11019]
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Yeah, mine was the Sesame Street Simple version of it.
Aug 6, 2018, 12:07 PM
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The decisions you can make and predict with current tools is absolutely amazing.
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You know what's weirder?
Aug 6, 2018, 10:04 AM
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I'll be discussing something with someone (enter any random subject...lets use the planet Mars as an example) and we wonder how long it would take to get there. I pull out my phone and go to google and type "How long" and before I type anything else...and with predictive text on google.... "would it take to get to mars" pops up as a suggestion.
GOOGLE IS ALWAYS LISTENING
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Oculus Spirit [79421]
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Nothing is private anymore
Aug 6, 2018, 10:22 AM
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I'm more convinced than ever we're going to end up like the Black Mirror "Nose Dive" episode.
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CU Medallion [60210]
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Happened to me with wood stain (posted a couple weeks back)
Aug 6, 2018, 10:14 AM
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and it wasn't even a discussion with anyone - I just THOUGHT it. My dog had scratched up a door in my house and I decided that I needed to sand and re-stain it. (update: done) Didn't mention it to anyone or even ponder it out loud to myself. I did go to my shop and look for my old can of stain, which was dried out, meaning I needed to go purchase a new can.
Then later when I get on TigerNet there's an ad for wood stain.
And it freaked me out.
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Heisman Winner [135801]
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Sat night we were at a friends house talking about this
Aug 6, 2018, 10:23 AM
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By the time we got home she sent a screenshot of an ad for Total Wine
Her husband had asked me where the beer I’d brought came from and that was my answer
Oooo weeee ooooo
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Orange Blooded [4612]
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I was listening to a biking podcast on the way home from
Aug 6, 2018, 11:03 AM
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Asheville on Saturday. They mentioned a particular brand of hydration pack by name one time during the podcast (I remember this because I thought about rewinding to hear the name again) - luckily, the next time I opened FB on my iPhone, the first ad was for that hydration pack.
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Oculus Spirit [97697]
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They listen
Aug 6, 2018, 6:12 PM
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Supposedly it's all computerized, but they collect audio and when a brand name, or an item, or category of items are picked up and identified by the computers, they target your ads. Mine happened when my water line broke (the first time). Called wife and within 5 minutes I got an email from 811 reminding me to call before I dig. I hadn't even finished digging the freaking hole yet.
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