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mcdonalds, local news...if you want this, download the app! Can't read a fox news article without "to continue reading for free, enter email". I don't eat there and could not care any less about fox news. Just curious. What are they gaining and what am I losing?

mcdonalds, local news...if you want this, download the app! Can't read a fox news article without "to continue reading for free, enter email". I don't eat there and could not care any less about fox news. Just curious. What are they gaining and what am I losing?

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[–] 2 pts

I work at a company that thinks that the app is just "trendy" and every customer needs to download it. They dont even know why, they just see all competitors doing it so they have to do it better. While the app creators use anonymous datamining to sell it to whoever wants it. It does not matter if you as a person are completely anonymized; cluster data is still a predictor for behaviour.

[–] 0 pt

That's the take away init? People think they're anonymous but that's not the point. It's behavior.

[–] 1 pt

Yea I believe most non-Forbes 500 companies are just copying others to survive, and may be doing it so without realizing the danger they are posing to their own customers. Plus its not popular nowadays to force people to use apps to gain stuff.