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Why does MyAnimeList need 938 partners?
(lemmy.ml)
We and our 938 partners value your privacy
“Babe, but it feels better without a condom.”
It really does
Just one of the many perks of a stable monogamous relationship.
We and our 938 partners value your health.
That's true though
We and our 938 partners value your health.
Hell yeah
And all of them have stellar security. No data ever leaks anywhere.
And don't forget these partners have other partners of their own.
Unfortunately this is just the state of the web in the modern day. Virtually every site exists to serve you ads while simultaneously collecting your data and selling it to their "partners" in exchange for their content.
I would love to see any actual verifiable positive ROI numbers directly linked to or resultant from the money a company spent to purchase these targeted ads.
That's the neat part, you can't, because the companies that run ad networks (e.g. Google and Meta) intentionally make the consumer behaviours market as opaque as possible. As the market maker, they have an economic incentive to withold information from their customers, because any mistakes from market participants due to information assymetries directly translate to profit surplus for the market maker.
We have long since moved on from simple pay per click/view pricing models to pay per "impression," the definition of which is not clear even to the companies that purchase the ads.
And in a somewhat ironic twist, one of the motivations for such extensive surveillance is the desire to quantify such ROIs. Statistics and analytics such as click through and conversion rates all require tracking user behaviour across vast networks.
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I've always thought (anecdotally - no substantiating evidence) that advertising on the internet, which is much different that advertising in a magazine or billboard, is probably a loss leader or close to it. The real value for the product manufacturer is the data they steal from you. In all honesty, I can't think of a product or service I've purchased that was based on an advertisement. 99.999% of the time, I know what I need or have a really good idea, and will research it on the internet extensively, depending on value, and make my purchase based on my research. It also could be that I have made it a concerted effort to never see any online advertisements on my network, so maybe I am not as affected as those who see ads in every square inch of their monitor every day, like they're on a porn site.
Network so tight I call it virgin. /s
It also could be that I have made it a concerted effort to never see any online advertisements on my network.
Well ya. This is like saying you don't get why guns are dangerous and then mentioning how you have bullet proof windows.
The whole scheme breaks apart if you block the constant images trying to make you buy things. I see it affecting others, no one in their right mind would buy a 100k car if it wasn't for ads imo.
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Not only that, but literally the only reason we even have these popups now is because of recent European laws
I mean the alternative is that they simply sell it without your consent.
Yeah that's my point
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Because you are the product.
938 customers, the users are the product
to value your privacy
In a literal sense. They're putting a price on your privacy, and there are 938 buyers.
It's almost like they don't really value your privacy
We value your privacy
And this is why we are going to violate it in every way possible!
They are honest, but not very clear. We could rewrite that as "we assigned monetary value to your privacy"
It reminds me of
To give you a better personalized experience™ of course!
Just block the partners, should still work. All of the anime pirating sites are riddled with ads.
All of the anime pirating sites are riddled with ads.
As if the commercial sites were any better...
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They took harem anime's to heart?
There is anime-planet which I use. There's also anilist. Don't know how private either of them are.
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hehe... you TOO can become a partner! We're having a special! Anyone willing to pay for partnership access coincidentally gets an unrelated trove of personal data!
Livechart.me ?
Anilist & Kitsu. (Kitsu is OpenSource, I think)
dw about it, your data will be safe amongst their friends! MyAnimeList and their 938 closest friends :)
Turn on the 'Cookie notices' filter lists in Ublock Origin.
I've been using https://kitsu.app/ for over 11 years.
That said, it's a bit janky. There are some minor bugs that will likely never get fixed because it's on a shoestring budget.
You can always import/export your library as XML though, so you can go back and forth between Kitsu and MAL.
MyPartnerList
Switch to Anilist ^^ Many FOSS Apps available :)
Switching is super easy
Thanks for highlighting that.
The same way IMDB has https://imdbapi.dev/ or https://www.omdbapi.com/ (which I did use for a bit) is there an equivalent, namely MyAnimeList DB or API?
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use stremio + Torrentio and optionally a paid Real Debrid subscription. You can actually stream from torrent found from thepiratebay or other torrent sites.
Mal isn't a streaming service
thats not what MAL is for
Don't install anything that needs to invade your privacy so massively.
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