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>please allow the user to search for ads that have been displayed to them This is a good point, and the fact that advertisers don't allow it is evidence that t
by mrob 9y ago
>please allow the user to search for ads that have been displayed to them
This is a good point, and the fact that advertisers don't allow it is evidence that they're doing something immoral. If adverts were really about informing people to help them make their own reasoned choices, advert search would be very useful. But if adverts are an attempt to emotionally manipulate people, then allowing search would be counterproductive. It would give the audience time to think, which makes psychological trickery less effective. Advertisers choosing to make adverts appear and disappear unpredictably is telling.
- convery 9y agoSurely that's more a question about storage, as in saving the page:ad-link history of a billion IPs, rather than maliciousness?
- prostoalex 9y ago> This is a good point, and the fact that advertisers don't allow it is evidence that they're doing something immoral. I don't think it's that deep. The advertiser, the ad buyer (some digital agency), the ad deliverer (some exchange or third-party network) and the publisher (the site where the ad was displayed) are all distinct entities with budgets fired up and ready to go at that specific moment. The advertiser would surely love for you to search for their ad again (and again, and again). The buyer wouldn't mind, if only to show that their placement has increased reach. But the deliverer or the publisher won't see any additional revenues off of this, therefore there's zero incentive for them to support it.