“There is a Big Brother perception that is a side effect of this kind of precision targeting,” Ms. Lieb said. “People are worried that you know them.”

I WONDER WHY

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A related article: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/13/technology/facebook-to-let-users-alter-their-ad-profiles.html

I'm kinda interested in seeing what dirt Facebook thinks it has on me. I have Adblock on by default, so my impressions of stuff are relatively pure and untainted by targeted advertising manipulation (although I am aware of instances where general, untargeted advertising has influenced me).


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