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You'd think, with all the fucking data they collect on me, they'd know that I don't have any money and I don't buy anything unless I absolutely have to.
They probably do know you don’t have money. They’re not trying to sell to you right now so much as categorize you. A lot of this data collection is about predicting who might spend later, not who is spending today. There are entire demographic buckets for people who are broke, cautious, or only spend out of necessity. Being targeted doesn’t mean they think you have money it just means you fit a profile they’re tracking. You’re data first, customer maybe later.
What’s unsettling is how specific some of these categories are. This is just a small sample of the kinds of labels people get sorted into: