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[Firmwarrior]

The cool thing is that now you'll be able to cheaply monetize this information in order to better serve users with great perfectly-tailored advertising

It'll be like a cool guy is just following you around 24/7 making sure you know what to buy and do and think

[dismalpedigree → Firmwarrior]

Barf. This sounds like a version of my own personal Hell.

[mikehotel → dismalpedigree]

Given the forum, the sarcasm tag is almost certainly implied.

[Firmwarrior → mikehotel]

haha, to be fair, that's exactly the kind of thing a lot of Facebook/Google employees would say unironically in a face to face conversation about ad tracking

[SyzygistSix → Firmwarrior]

>It'll be like a cool guy is just following you around 24/7 making sure you know what to buy and do and think

Can they animate him (or her) so I don't feel lonely too?