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If I were facebook I would hesitate to make this so visible because I wouldn't want my advertising clients to know how unsophisticated and inaccurate these inferences seem to be.

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These are not the tags Facebook uses to target ads. Well, they are included, but they use far more hidden, or "dark tags"

Still, a client might not know that, and anyway it doesn't paint a picture of sophistication in the realm of predicting user interests.

I know. In my case, they can show me ads for a Sukhoi-24 all they want, I'm not going to buy one. :)

As someone who identifies as an attack helicopter, this is relevant to my interests. Is she on AirSupportr?

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