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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, Informative) by Open4D on Wednesday March 19 2014, @09:38AM

    by Open4D (371) on Wednesday March 19 2014, @09:38AM (#18530) Journal

    Back in 2007 they censored TruthOut and convinced almost everyone but Google to do it at the same time.

    Your hyperlink for this didn't work for me. I had a quick search myself and all I found were rebuttals: 1 [carlhutzler.com], 2 [sethf.com]. Seems that this 'Truth Out' site was being a bit spammy. On this Truth Out page [truth-out.org] I can see a link to "AOL/Microsoft-Hotmail Preventing Delivery of Truthout Communications [truthout.org]", but it gives a 404.

    Your techrights.org link was interesting though.

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