As the utter psychosis of adtech has come further and further into the mainstream light, I have been occasionally enjoying myself by “leveraging” GDPR-obliged services against the most virulent believers with which I’ve had an account (so, all of them) in order to obtain just glimpses into the actual data of the mythos we’ve all built about the shit. To be honest, I’m still surprised when I find out that the huge majority of people have never bothered, and I try not to dwell on my (informed, taxing) supposition that the individual user’s volition in regards to this inherently exploitive dynamic we’ve sold the web to has been in control of the masters of these mechanisms.
The dictionary below is the entirety of a file I found among my Spotify user data export entitled inferences.json, explained in context a little more by Pragya Verma in this Medium post.
Inferences.json — contains Spotify’s understanding of you as a user i.e., what kind of content you consume on Spotify like education, business, dance, and so on.