How can targeted advertising be a service? It would only be a service if you wanted to buy something but you didn't know what until you saw an ad for it. I thi

How can targeted advertising be a service? It would only be a service if you wanted to buy something but you didn't know what until you saw an ad for it. I think it's bizarre that anybody who grew up after the '50s would buy anything based on an ad... and yet... I make a living in advertising because it's true. I'd rather live in a world where it wasn't.