@ExLisper @Nikls94 Basically predicting and modifying your behavior. Here’s a paper that explains how it’s done: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S235215461730044X
The article frames behavior modification as a health advancement, but whoever can alter a habit can do so both to heal and to alter your vote or discourage you from protesting, and to make you accept unacceptable living conditions. Tell me what you listen to, and I’ll tell you who you are (and eventually I’ll make you be who I want).
@ExLisper A knife might seem harmless next to a fork, but it still remains a weapon. The business of these companies isn’t data collection; rather, it’s the prediction and modification of behavior (with data serving as mere raw material). The ability they have to do this with seemingly insignificant data is hard to explain. I got an understanding by reading: file:///home/jsc/Zuboff,%20Shoshana.The%20Age%20of%20Surveillance%20Capitalism.2019.pdf
Longer than the article, but it’s worth the effort.