Comment by neom
1 year ago
The reason I think this isn't happening (other than they have told us it's not happening and technically seems very difficult to do this long without researchers/people figuring it out), is that in my life I've spent millions and millions of dollars on ad budget, we spent so much with twitter they made us custom hoodie, nobody tried to sell this function to me, it's not an enterprise level option, I've seen those, and it's not a button in the ad platform, so how is the key word getting into an ad network getting attributed to my ad profile and my ad served? There is a lot of rich ad enhancement you can buy at the enterprise level, but I've never seen anything like that mentioned even remotely. There are A LOT of ways I can target you, some of them pretty creepy, but using convo snippets from the phone? I can't even think how that would work.
Or, for that matter: if this functionality exists in phones, surely there were some people involved in developing the software and infrastructure to support it. It seems hard to imagine that none of them would have spoken up, even anonymously, to confirm its existence.