#SocialMedia #Instagram #Meta #Algorithms #TargetedAds: "Besides being delivered directly to me by Instagram’s algorithm, thousands of these ads can be trivially found on Meta’s ad library by searching “t.me,” which is the link shortener for Telegram, exposing a massive content moderation and ad screening failure by the company.

Many of these services are being advertised as part of a side hustle culture. Most of the ads I’ve gotten are of young men wearing ski masks holding gigantic stacks of cash with captions like “Take 10 minutes out of your day to learn how,” “make some bread,” “join tele to make $50k a month,” “going to eat or starve?,” “learn to make a bag,” “While some of y’all WATCHING us get RICH… EVERYONE else is TAPPIN in for the CASHAPP MONEY DROP to get RICH!” Once on Telegram, it becomes immediately clear that these accounts want to help you get rich by simply helping you deal drugs, steal people’s money, or by draining hacked bank accounts or using stolen debit and credit cards.

The ads are a window into a blatantly illegal underground economy of drug dealers, hackers, and scammers that Meta is not only failing to moderate, but is actively profiting from and injecting into users’ feeds."

https://www.404media.co/instagram-ads-illegal-content-drugs-guns-hackers/

#Canada #C18 #LinkTaxes #BigTech #News #Media #Journalism #Meta #Google #TargetedAds: "The link tax laws passed around the world have typically been justified on the grounds that companies such as Google and Meta are are using links drive traffic to news sites, but keeping any profits from advertising in the process. In other words, online advertising means Google and Meta have taken control of the online advertising that used to be the mainstay of news publishers.

As a previous PIA article explained, today’s advertising system is based on constant surveillance of site visitors, but Google and Meta retain most of the revenue. In other words, if C-18 aims to fix the publishing industry’s financial challenges, the solution isn’t introducing link taxes that don’t address the real problem. Instead, news publishers could move to context-based advertising, which respects the privacy of visitors, and doesn’t hand most of the ad revenue to intermediaries like Google and Meta."

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/canadas-new-c-18-link-tax-law/

#Cellphones #Mobile #Ads #Advertising #AdTech #TargetedAds: "The gradual infiltration of advertising into any and all spaces that also contain human eyes and/or ears is neither new nor unique to the tech industry — “ad creep” was coined in the ’90s — but among companies with successful platforms and popular apps, it is particularly acute. Some of the largest modern tech companies are, if not explicitly advertising firms, built on advertising assumptions. Google is a search engine and Instagram is a social network, but for most users, both of them are free, and advertising is implied.

This isn’t ideal — advertising is arguably never ideal — but it’s a deal, and implies certain norms: Google is a thing you can expect to use in exchange for being sold to advertisers, whose ads you will see. The broad tendency among internet companies making explicit bids for attention has long been that if the product is free, you see ads. If you pay, the ads go away. You pay to eliminate ads in Spotify, Candy Crush, or YouTube. If you don’t, you sit through them. There are plenty of reasons to worry about such a framework — targeted advertising is a form of surveillance, and it certainly doesn’t feel great to effectively buy back your own attention with a subscription alternative — but it made sense on its own terms.

It was also, in comparison to older media providers, who had over the years settled on more of an all-of-the-above financial arrangement, sort of refreshing. Paying TV customers still saw ads despite growing bills. Newspaper subscribers still got pitched by businesses trying to steer opinion and sell products between news stories. Here was a new world in which the boundary between paying for a product and being the product was restored, briefly."
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/08/why-every-tech-company-turns-into-an-ad-company.html

Our full report on 'Influence policing' has now been published: https://www.sipr.ac.uk/news/influence-policing-published/ We found both good practice and deeply troubling practice. #InfluencePolicing #PoliceScotland #SIPR #InfluenceGovernment #Ads #Cybercrime #AlgorithmicPolicing #TargetedAds @susansegfault

Our research on targeted advertising interventions led by @susansegfault in the press: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/aug/13/government-targeting-uk-minorities-with-social-media-ads-despite-facebook-ban Some weird and troubling campaigns in the UK. More to follow later in the month. #ads #Government #Intervention #UKGov #TargetedAds

#EU #GDPR #SocialMedia #Meta #Facebook #Privacy #TargetedAds #DataProtection: "After more than five years of extensive litigation by noyb, the German Kartellamt and decisions by the EDPB and CJEU it seems that Meta finally complies with EU privacy laws. The company announced it will ask its users for consent before showing behavioral ads in the future. It is uncelar if Meta fully applies the consent requirement. noyb will follow up with litigation if the GDPR is not fully implemented by Meta."

https://noyb.eu/en/5-years-litigation-meta-apparently-switches-consent-behavioral-ads

»#Meta could make highly #targetedads opt-in, but only in Europe: Responding to #EU regulators, the company says its proposal would take about three months to implement.« https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/1/23815382/meta-targeted-ads-opt-in-eu-data-privacy-laws?eicker.news #tech #media

The most aggravating ads also make me realize that current AI aren't taking over anytime soon. I had a big year of purchases six years ago when my old roommates moved out and I got some nice new stuff. All those years later I'm still getting targeted ads for the following once in a decade (or longer) purchases: Mattress, expensive computer chair, dishes, and computer parts.

"Hey, did you like that product you just bought that you only need one of? Get a few more!"

#TargetedAds

F*cking hell Youtube REALLY wants me to check out Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate stuff. I keep marking it as "not interested" and even block some of the worst channrls, but it just keeps coming. #youtube #targetedads #targeteddads (see what I did there?)

eicker.news #technews »#Products From #TargetedAds Might Be #Worse Than You Think: Buying from targeted ads often means #payingmore for #lowerquality.« https://lifehacker.com/products-from-targeted-ads-might-be-worse-than-you-thin-1850313265

#TargetedAds makes products worse, more expensive, and makes publishers less money because the middlemen are choking the other parties (sellers, publishers, customers, and regular people) by making it more expensive after they have established market dominance.
https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/08/late-stage-sea-monkeys/

#ChokepointCapitalism #DigitalMarketing

Everything advertised on social media is overpriced junk - “…stuff that's pushed to you via targeted ads costs an average of 10 percent more, and it significantly more likely to come from a vendor with a poor rating from the Better Business Bureau”. From Cory Doctorow via Pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/08/late-stage-sea-monkeys/#jeremys-razors #onlineads #socialmedia #advertising #digitaladvertising #commerce #ecommerce #buyingonline #targetedads #adtargeting #digitalads

"all privacy policies should contain clearly marked and usable fields to opt out at the time you acknowledge them. Moving toward a default opt-out model would reverse the onus on the patient to navigate and verify complicated processes for revoking their consent, such as by writing to a privacy inbox, after the fact. To protect patients, we should separate the business of ad tech from the business of getting care."

https://www.statnews.com/2023/04/07/medical-data-privacy-phreesia/

#Phreesia #TargetedAds #Surveillance

Hmmm. Guess I should've known. "Every hospital in America promises to protect the privacy of its patients and the details of their medical care. And almost every one of them uses sophisticated data tools to track and share the personal information of visitors as soon as they start clicking on their websites." Article from Stat News: https://www.statnews.com/2023/04/03/hospitals-hipaa-health-data-pixel-tracker/

#Hospital #Data #Tracker #PatientPrivacy #DataSharing #TargetedAds

That creepy and widespread surveillance which has been built? It will just serve you with lousy products, inferior to what you'd find online yourself.

"The products shown in targeted ads were, on average, roughly 10 percent more expensive than what users could find by searching online. And the products were more than twice as likely to be sold by lower-quality vendors, as measured by their Better Business Bureau ratings."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/06/opinion/online-advertising-privacy-data-surveillance-consumer-quality.html

#Privacy #Surveillance #Internet #TargetedAds

#TargetedAds
Subscrevo.
@NewYorker

wow targeted ads (obvs. on other platforms) do *NOT* know who I am

but good for Jeremy and Kristen I guess

#richPeople #targetedAds #ofCourseThey'reWhite #familyInheritance? #retireAt60?

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"Facebook alone has 2 billion daily users, while across all of #Meta’s platforms including #Instagram, #WhatsApp and Messenger the total is just under 3 billion.

Facebook generates revenue from building profiles of those users and matching them with advertisers, who direct ads at people targeting their specific interests and background."

Does paid-for #Facebook and #Instagram signal #EndOfFreeAccess orthodoxy? | #TargetedAds

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/20/facebook-instagram-paid-for-signal-free-access-meta

Australians able to opt out of targeted ads and erase their data under proposed #privacy reforms | Data protection | The Guardian

Individual rights could be modelled on the EU’s general data protection regulation or #GDPR
#austrailia #targetedads #dataprotection

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/16/australians-able-to-opt-out-of-targeted-ads-and-erase-their-data-under-proposed-privacy-reforms