• stephen01king@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    Are we sure we can call that targeted pharmaceutical advertisement? It sounds like it could just be the algorithm accidentally discovering a correlation between expecting mothers and preference for unscented hand creams and such.

    Unless Amazon did specifically program that in, I think these accidental correlation is not something you can control before it happens and trying to regulate them would be a waste of time and resources.

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      4 months ago

      The article I mentioned wasn’t targeting her for prescription pharmaceuticals.

      I specifically think that if there is a prescription pharmaceutical add it should not be algorithmically given to you.