And couldn't I just fake the times someone saw my ads to get more money? How is that effective? As an advertiser do I have to just trust the ones seeking ad space?

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[–] 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So, I sold Internet ads for a while. (I know, I'm not proud, but I had a family to feed.) We would sell packages of views.

Like, for $100 I could have your ad appear 20,000 times in a month. And for a little more, it would target a specific demographics like families with children, retired folks, or Republican homosexuals with cats. And for a little more, we could target those demographics in specific parts of the country. And for a little more we could target anyone who walked into your competitors location in the past 3 months. (If you took your phone anywhere, we knew it.)

I can't remember all the other targeting we had, but it got creepy.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    (If you took your phone anywhere, we knew it.)

    Is this because people have the location setting turned on or does it not matter?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    I wasn't involved in the tech end, so I imagine locking down your location settings could block some of it, but I wouldn't put it past Google or Apple to snag information from the mandatory 911 cell location.

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