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How about providing knowledge of the mere existence of the product? How is that not useful?

• clarry 9y ago
  If it really did that. In practice, it doesn't. Not for me anyway. It's like firing an assault rifle at the sky and hoping there's someone to catch the bullet, where ever it might land. It's just spam about products I'm never going to buy and don't need to know about. By all means, give me all the ads when I'm actually looking for a product to buy. The sad thing is that when I do that, all the ads tend to be irrelevant. Even on sites like amazon, which should know what I'm looking for. They have these sponsored product placements that are supposed to be relevant to my search. In practice, they hardly ever are. And if they're somewhat relevant, they're still not relevant enough for me to consider purchase. Online ads do an incredibly bad job of providing useful knowledge about the mere existence of a product. In practice, I always need to turn to reviews, forums, word-of-mouth, etc. etc. etc., and finding useful information in the infinite sea of ad-spam is quite frustrating.