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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: 3, Informative) by Angry Jesus on Wednesday March 19 2014, @10:03AM

    by Angry Jesus (182) on Wednesday March 19 2014, @10:03AM (#18540)

    I imagine the xbox, maybe ps too, will be overflowing with ads in the future. I am sick of ads everywhere.The only way to avoid them is to become a hermit it seems.

    Piracy FTW! Nearly every tv show of any significant quality (which means very few reality shows) is available commercial-free, often free of logos and overlays too. And because it is illicit, none of the data-miners are willing to touch it for fear being of branded as pro-pirate and losing the cooperation of the licit channels, so nobody is recording your viewing habits either.

    When peace-of-mind is outlawed, only pirates will have peace!

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