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Targeted Political Ads for Microsoft Products

posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday March 18 2014, @07:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the suddenly-not-a-game dept.

Vanderhoth writes:

"According to a story from the Washington Post, Microsoft is using gamer profiles to create targeted political ads. The article talks mostly about XBox Live, but other services like Skype and MSN will be included. The article also presents some interesting, to non-gamer, stats about the typical gamer that Microsoft was promoting at the CPAC. As an example, 40% of it's 25 million subscribers are actually married! who'd of thunk it?"

 
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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by edIII on Tuesday March 18 2014, @08:39PM

    by edIII (791) on Tuesday March 18 2014, @08:39PM (#18314)

    This is truly just hilarious.

    What did people think they were going to get by continuing to pump money into Microsoft or Sony consoles?

    It's like expecting the devils to not act like devils, although in this case, it seems the devils are retarded.

    Personally, the first time I got an advertisement the box would have hit the wall at Mach 10. A political advertisement? No way man. C4 in a shaped charge. Let me see how far down I can push it into the ground.

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