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From “Heavy Purchasers” of Pregnancy Tests to the Depression-Prone: We Found 650,000 Ways Advertisers Label You – The Markup (themarkup.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A spreadsheet on ad platform Xandr’s website revealed a massive collection of “audience segments” used to target consumers based on highly specific, sometimes intimate information and inferences.

Not posting an archive link because this is an interactive data story and can't be fully captured by any of the archivers.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Anyone try requesting their own ad profiles from the data brokers listed near the end? I'm curious, but I also don't trust giving them any personal data to verify my identity...