There is it. The main reason why Honey exists.
Yes, their evil plot finally laid bare. Copy what Mastercard and Visa have been doing since the 80s.
So, advertising the things I have already bought? Not sure thats gonna be super successful…
Amazon has done that for the past 2 decades and it has somehow worked.
We noticed you bought a fridge yesterday. Are you interested in these fridges, too?
Gonna catch’em all!
Has it worked? Its never led to a repeat purchase for me. :/
If only it was smart enough. Make its like oh you bought a newtv, you would like this new surround system
That would be actually valuable for consumers and advertisers. Shame its impossible.
The “people usually both this with this product” suggestions can be pretty good to cover this.
with stuff like this, usually the objective is to advertise based on patterns across purchase histories
I’m sure thats the theory, and whats being sold to the ad buyers, but my money is on it ending up like the ads you get after buying something from amazon/ebay: same item you just bought.
you probably just notice that because it doesn’t make sense from your perspective.
it’s probably more cost efficient for advertisers to just throw relevant ads at potential groups. Determining whether an individual already has the item is a waste of resources, and you probably don’t notice when the ads are things you don’t own.
Last time I observed this I was getting the exact same item that I bought being advertised to me constantly, across multiple sites. No variation at all. It was a pair of hiking shoes. If it had then offered me hiking poles or rain coats or anything else that would have been useful, but instead it was the same pair of shoes I had already purchased.
If the ad network had actually suggested useful paired items that i dont already own, then those ads should actually stand out, as they are actually relevant to me.
If its not cost efficient to actually target to the individual (and I dont doubt that it isn’t), im not sure what Paypal is bringing to the table here that Amazon etc can’t already do.
More like using your past purchases to predict what you will most likely be prone to buy next
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That’s why the only safe software in the long term is Free Software.
Corpo apps are like
“Do you love me? Rate 5 stars?”
No I don’t love you. How about zero stars for sexual harassment? Do I need to talk to HR?
Fucking within like 2 minutes of using their apps too, they ask, “do you like the app?” Then another popup that says, “provide feedback for why you don’t like our app?”
Because you keep getting in the way of me actually doing what I need to do. And it’s getting uninstalled as soon as I’m done with it.
It’s to the point where no one wants to do shit on their website anymore. They force you to download the app. So they can get even more access and control of your info. And like I need more motherfucking apps on my goddamn home screens. Fuck that shit.
How is that GDPR compliant?
It’ll probably launch in the US only to avoid GDPR concerns
By showing you an annoying popup every time you use PayPal, and eventually you’ll accidentally click OK and it will mysteriously remember this and never ask you again.
Up next: PayPal introducing new AI that purchases random shit for you.
Relevant xkcd?
So… like Amazon Yesterday Shipping?
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.
The card companies can get data from the Merchant Category Code to infer the nature of purchases, without specifics. The stores also have a record of what items you bought, which could also be sold unless you have a contract with the store that guarantees they won’t sell your purchase history (at least in the countries without strong privacy laws)
That’s per store though, presumably when they sign up with a payment provider (because there’s a lot of rules about e.g. using credit cards to gamble with).
If I buy sex toys from Tesco, it’s still showing up as “groceries”. If I buy from a sex shop, it’s going to be more clear cut.
I can see from my emails that PayPal send out itemised receipts on behalf of their customers, so they’re definitely collecting more data than the big two.
If I buy from a sex shop, it’s going to be more clear cut.
Life pro tip: Open a sex shop that sells groceries, to devalue the data analysis ^^
You mean DEDE? I love that place.
I hope they enjoy analzying my once-a-month subscription to FFXIV and nothing else.
Prepare to get inundated with ads for anime girls and other weeb shit.
EDIT: To clarify, I mean “weeb” as a term of endearment rather than the pejorative.
I first thought this was a bad idea by Paypal but you opened my eyes
thsnks I’m out
Well… looks like I’m going to have to find a new payment platform to use.
This would be? Most stores I know of either want your credit card information directly, or paypal Never really saw a international big player like this… Here in Switzerland we have twint as alternative, but it is only available on most swiss stores.
Well, stripe is relatively often available as well…
What I wanted to tell is, paypal does not need to be the best payment service for end user, it needs to be the cheapest and easiest service to implement in your store. The store does not care about your data going to paypal, the store only sees the cut they have to gove the payment services.
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Just the tip you say?
How about no way!
Going to terminate account now. Good luck with that shit Paypal
I’m surprised that they haven’t been doing this from the start tbh. Obviously they’ve been selling your data to whoever, which is really the same I guess.
Of course it is.
What a surprise.
Funny. I don’t have a creditcard and I don’t want one. That is the only reason I sometimes, maybe once or twice a year I use PayPal.
I wish them good luck building a profile on 2 purchases. Also, I’m in the EU and I suspect this will not be legal here.
I also cannot believe somebody thought it would be a great idea to introduce even more tracking and ads. Don’t they understand they are driving away customers?
