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Hugh_Lebowski

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2. It's a mistake to presume that 'actual people' at Google are making these kinds of decisions

Reply to ShazzieB (Original post)

Fri Feb 10, 2023, 07:54 PM

Feb 2023

Advertisers say 'we want to target people that your demographics data say are low-income' and Google's algorithm sells them ads. There's 1000's of ad buys every day, and there's very few people in charge of monitoring the pseudo-political message of every single ad-buy like these.

You are basically anthropomorphizing ... a computer algorithm and its shopping cart.

Not saying they shouldn't employ 10's of thousands of people to micro-manage everything that happens with ads, but ... I'm not expecting it.

Nor would I expect they must judge every occasion the way I personally would

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Google targets low-income people with ads for "fake abortion clinics": Study [View all] ShazzieB Feb 2023 OP

and the WAR ON WOMEN continues apace. niyad Feb 2023 #1

It's a mistake to presume that 'actual people' at Google are making these kinds of decisions Hugh_Lebowski Feb 2023 #2

That's a good point. ShazzieB Feb 2023 #3

Yeah the existence of these places infuriates me ... f*** them Hugh_Lebowski Feb 2023 #4