thehatfox@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoPayPal plans an ad network built off your purchase historywww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down10
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minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoI’ll be more concerned when Visa and Mastercard get wind of this idea.
minus-squareRaoulDook@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoDid you not know they’re already selling your purchase data? All the card networks do it. That’s why you need to use cash to buy anything you don’t want logged to create a data point about you to be sold
minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-25 months agoFor items or just the shop? Because I write EPOS systems for a living, and as far as I can tell, we pass no item data to the credit card merchants. The shop is obviously passed to them. So maybe don’t buy from Dave’s Enormous Dildo Emporium.
I’ll be more concerned when Visa and Mastercard get wind of this idea.
Did you not know they’re already selling your purchase data? All the card networks do it.
That’s why you need to use cash to buy anything you don’t want logged to create a data point about you to be sold
For items or just the shop? Because I write EPOS systems for a living, and as far as I can tell, we pass no item data to the credit card merchants.
The shop is obviously passed to them. So maybe don’t buy from Dave’s Enormous Dildo Emporium.