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@afelia
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they didn't actually do any data poisoning.
They were just misleading themselves.
The advice from the video really isn't that good for people not actually understanding such things. Because most will just use it as a new word without substance to excuse them misleading themselves.
This sounds cynical. But that's what I perceive in people that aren't targeted groups.
This feels weird because there is no algorithmic ad surface in my life at all.
The only ads I see are static paper ads or public screens ads. And the public screen ones have never been relevant.
It seems way easier to reduce my exposure to ads than spend my time larping a different profile to confuse some machine.
I had so many people use some version of "data poisoning" as justification or excuse why they still waste their time on instagram. And when I actually looked at it,...
