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?
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?
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.
Republican homosexuals with cats. How much is that package 🤣🤣
Is this because people have the location setting turned on or does it not matter?
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.
It does and it doesn’t.
Think of it like, there’s dozens of different ways to get your location data, and maybe 90% of people will be exposed by one or other method.