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You’ll get more ads that don’t relate to you, so you’ll feel like there’s more advertising. If you don’t want to be bothered by ads, we probably need better ta
by jp555 8y ago
You’ll get more ads that don’t relate to you, so you’ll feel like there’s more advertising.
If you don’t want to be bothered by ads, we probably need better targeting, not a ban on it.
- Nasrudith 8y agoNah only regulations will work from a tragedy of the commons situation. Look at Spam email - that shit is clogging systems and leading to a relatively massive overhead. Because they can make 1/100th of a penny at 1/1000 a penny in cost they will just keep on doing it indefinitely - damn the externalities. I am very unimpressed by targeted advertising - it seems to be more a metamarketing thing since clients think they are getting more while the suggestions only gather enough to be creepy and useless compared to "what am I looking at right now?". I accidentally managed to flip Youtube ads gender targetting in a ham fisted way once in a week despite me telling them already.
- jp555 8y agoSo you’re saying you’d like targeting to be better?
- amelius 8y agoI'm currently seeing ads for a product that I just bought and don't need to buy again for at least a year ...
- jp555 8y agoSo you’d agree better targeting is needed?
- anoncake 8y ago> You’ll get more ads that don’t relate to you Great! That means they're less likely to influence me.