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  • Matt Wilcoxmattwilcox
    Jan 30, 2024, 1:29 PM

    You think those unsafe "revolutionary heating systems" products would exist if they weren't able to target specific demographics - the poorer people with less tech savvy? Of course not. Shitty products that prey on people are enabled by tracking tech.

    You think the gambling games would be as successful without targeted advertising to known addictive personalities?

    If there was no tracking tech they'd have to compete to find their audience, and they *would fail to do that*.

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  • Paul Chernoffpaulc
    Jan 31, 2024, 2:37 PM

    @mattwilcox @antonyjohnston I wish con men would go into medicine because they are better at identifying people with dementia than most neurologists.

    We need to hit hard that the most vulnerable people are targeted for scams. Our newer technology makes it easier to target the vulnerable

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  • OggieOggie@woof.group
    Jan 31, 2024, 6:09 PM

    @mattwilcox A huge portion of these companies will fail literally no matter what, as well. They aren't designed to succeed, they are designed to take up VC, scale with 'infinite growth ', because there are infinite people on the earth using internet, then everyone gets out and sells to the greater fool before the house of cards collapses.

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  • fanf42fanf42@treehouse.systems
    Feb 2, 2024, 6:29 AM

    @mattwilcox but Mat, the torment nexus, it is how it is! If we get rid of it, so many companies will die off! Cool ones, with brillant mind, well founded, contributing so much to our economy and advancing the state of the art!

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  • Jeromedl2jml@mastodon.radio
    Feb 2, 2024, 6:56 AM

    @mattwilcox Actually, "revolutionary heating systems" which violated the first principle of thermodynamics existed long before the Internet. That and cars running on tap water, etc...
    Just go to your local library and read the advertisements in old magazines.

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  • Matt Wilcoxmattwilcox
    Feb 2, 2024, 7:03 AM

    @dl2jml I was talking about the specific ones illegal to sell in the uk which were advertised on YouTube, and are known fire hazards with counterfeit fuses and prone to burning up. They’re just electric resistive heaters.

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  • Jeromedl2jml@mastodon.radio
    Feb 2, 2024, 7:05 AM

    @mattwilcox I wouldn't know as I don't watch YouTube. But I dispute that fake heaters would not exist without tracking as they did exist before tracking.

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  • Matt Wilcoxmattwilcox
    Feb 2, 2024, 7:07 AM

    @dl2jml I didn’t say they didn’t exist before that. I said the companies today that exist selling them exist because they can target specific users who are most vulnerable to fall for it.

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  • Billy SmithBillySmith@social.coop
    Feb 4, 2024, 9:41 PM

    @mattwilcox

    Not to mention the drive-by malware-installation powered by the categorisation of machines used and OS's used.

    Bad actors will specify that their adverts are only shown to vulnerable machines, and the ads will connect to 3d-party ad-servers that automatically install malware.

    Best option: Look at the minimum requirements mandated for by insurance companies that provide anti-hacking insurance, and use those as the baseline to work from.

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