• If It's Advertised to You Online, You Probably Shouldn't Buy It. Here's

    From The Telecom Digest@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 20 17:13:43 2023
    By Julia Angwin

    If you saw a Facebook ad recently for Jeremy’s Razors, which bills
    itself as a “woke-free” razor for men, you may well be a father of school-age children who likes ultimate fighting, Hershey’s chocolate,
    hunting or Johnny Cash. This is according to Facebook’s ad library,
    which describes the audiences to which marketers target their
    advertisements.

    I can see why Jeremy’s Razors is focusing its ad dollars on men who
    might appreciate its hypermasculine message. But the reverse is not as
    clear: Are these men better off for having been pitched an “anti-woke” razor?

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

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