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How is this different to how advertising has been done for hundreds of years, e.g. newspapers or a billboard on a public street? Aren't they "manipulating peop
by HatchedLake721 6y ago
How is this different to how advertising has been done for hundreds of years, e.g. newspapers or a billboard on a public street?
Aren't they "manipulating people into buying something they don't need"?
- varispeed 6y agoToday advertising looks something like this: - You go to a shop and ask for information about what kind of tires they have - A spotter sees you and phones the ad company that you were seen at such and such store asking for tires - The ad company already knows where you do usually walk and what time - They send agents with tires on billboards who follow you on the way to work and back and whenever you look they try to shove a banner in front of your eyes, sometimes even slowing you down as you try to walk past them I am pretty sure if they did exactly the same as they do online, but offline, that would be illegal (stalking for starters)
- cwkoss 6y agoThe vast majority of advertising is not a socially productive activity. There is a narrow use case that can be productive when informing a buyer of the existence of something they actually need, but this is not the case 90+% of the time.