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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jul 11

    “The Spinner* is a service that enables you to control articles presented to your wife on the websites she usually visits, in order to influence her on a subconscious level to initiate sex.” The best bit? It’s “just” adtech. It’s retargeting. It’s how Google makes money.pic.twitter.com/LiiWJjPBxG

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      2. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jul 11

        So The Spinner* has the same business model as Google*, Facebook*, Oracle*, Adobe*, Yahoo*, … you get the idea. Only The Spinner is tiny compared to those behemoths of surveillance capitalism. https://youtu.be/KUNiX5emptQ  * Search on https://better.fyi/trackers/  to see their trackers.

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jul 11

        Do you know who else does what The Spinner* does? @MailChimp … WHAT? But they have an adorable monkey mascot! Never! Oh my goodness, could it be that maybe surveillance capitalism is the business model of mainstream technology & it is as manipulative/exploitative as all fuck?pic.twitter.com/1JqqXZqdah

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      4. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jul 11

        We should all be thanking the Valley Bros that made The Spinner* – it might just be what it takes for folks to sit up and take note of (a) how this crap works (b) what it is designed to do (c) how fucked up it all is. The Spinner* is surveillance capitalism in its purest.

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      5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jul 11

        The Spinner* is surveillance capitalism’s Martin Shkreli moment.

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      6. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jul 11

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        HT @laurakalbag for the lead and @mekosoff for the original tweet https://twitter.com/mekosoff/status/1016389717435338752?s=21 …

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      2. Kuba Suder‏ @kuba_suder Jul 15
        Replying to @aral

        I refuse to believe this is real...

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jul 15
        Replying to @kuba_suder

        Do you believe Google is real? Because it’s the same business model, techniques, and technology.

        2 replies 0 retweets 10 likes
      4. Kuba Suder‏ @kuba_suder Jul 15
        Replying to @aral

        oh, I’m sure it can be done - I just can’t imagine someone would actually start a service that uses this in such an insanely unethical way, not to sell things, but to let people manipulate others… that’s a whole different level

        6 replies 3 retweets 7 likes
      5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jul 15
        Replying to @kuba_suder

        Selling you things = manipulating people.

        1 reply 39 retweets 44 likes
      6. felix stalder‏ @stalfel Jul 16
        Replying to @aral @kuba_suder

        Yes sure, but the satire moment is that you use this to manipulate someone you are supposed to love. But even the fact this this is not clear, is an indicator how dystopic commercial tech has become.

        1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
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      2. DANNYonPC‏ @DANNYonPC Jul 16
        Replying to @aral

        Is this Black mirror season 5?

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jul 17
        Replying to @DANNYonPC

        Yep. We call it 2018.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      2. Имя  🌹 Фамилия‏ @teremok_love Jul 15
        Replying to @aral @levelsio

        @RationalMale just look at this ... okay, some tech guy just trying solve all problems for his own SMV "in one click"

        1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
      3. Rollo Tomassi‏ @RationalMale Jul 15
        Replying to @teremok_love @aral @levelsio

        I was wondering how long it would be until some industrious coder wrote a script that plays on behavioral psychology to improve his sexless marriage with his wife. All it took was his thirst to overcome his Blue Pill notions of what is “ethical”.

        1 reply 4 retweets 16 likes
      4. Rollo Tomassi‏ @RationalMale Jul 15
        Replying to @RationalMale @teremok_love and

        This is basically the same behavioral psychology algorithm Google, Facebook and Twitter use to influence engagement, only the behavior modified is a wife’s sexual initiative rather than sales.

        1 reply 7 retweets 19 likes
      5. Paris Hunter  👑‏ @vincentcecelia Jul 15
        Replying to @RationalMale @teremok_love and

        This is a neat technical idea though. I mean it is literally what Facebook is doing but on a smaller scale. I wonder if I can use this and only send traffic to my own sites for traffic and ad revenue 🤔

        1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
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      7. Paris Hunter  👑‏ @vincentcecelia Jul 15
        Replying to @RationalFist @RationalMale and

        Thanks. That makes sense. I will save this for later.

        0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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      2. Lily Chumley‏ @lilychumley Jul 14
        Replying to @aral

        ok but could somebody put together an array of the ads that are supposed to make wives subconsciously want to initiate sex bc that has got to be hilarious

        2 replies 2 retweets 24 likes
      3. Dr Bex‏ @BexGraham Jul 14
        Replying to @lilychumley @aral

        I too am wondering this, also if it's dudes designing it, gonna be epic 😂😂😂

        0 replies 0 retweets 17 likes
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