Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Thursday, November 21st, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Google is changing its rules around political ads,

PayPal is acquiring honey for a ton of money,

why have a dash button when you can have a dash shelf,

route puts all of your orders in one place,

and I'm afraid I'm calling it Google's original culture is definitively over

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech

Google has announced new political ad rules limiting the micro-targeting

political advertisers can use to only age, gender, and general location

categories.

Quoting from their blog post on the topic,

quote, given recent concerns and debates about political advertising

and the importance of shared trust in the democratic process,

we want to improve voters confidence in the democratic process.

We want to improve voters' confidence

in the political ads they may see on our ad platforms.

While we've never offered granular micro targeting

of election ads, we believe there's more we can do to further promote increased

visibility of election ads. That's why we're limiting election ads, audience

targeting to the following general categories, age, gender, and general location at the postal code level.

Political advertisers can of course continue to do contextual targeting such as

serving ads to people reading or watching a story about say the economy. This will align our approach

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