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There is one hitch and it’s a doozy. This invasive targeting may be neutralized by market forces when it comes to buying dish soap but it’s proven frighteningly
by Gokenstein 8y ago
There is one hitch and it’s a doozy. This invasive targeting may be neutralized by market forces when it comes to buying dish soap but it’s proven frighteningly effective in swaying voters even before the internet. Politicians conduct expensive in depth polling and it’s because it works. The move to using data collected online isn’t going anywhere and the normalization of this in advertising helps them.
- _bxg1 8y agoYeah, but political ads 1) won't sustain the adtech industry by themselves 2) are much easier to convince people to regulate/outlaw
- beatpanda 8y agoIt was also politically popular in the U.S. to outlaw unlimited donations to political campaigns from corporations, and then that law was struck down by the Supreme Court.
- _bxg1 8y agoI'm not saying it'd be easy, but it's a much less complicated topic than applying regulation to all of online privacy and advertising at once.