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It always surprises me when people say that they're fine with personalised ads, even going so far as saying that if they're getting ads they want them to be per
by ikornaselur 6y ago
It always surprises me when people say that they're fine with personalised ads, even going so far as saying that if they're getting ads they want them to be personalised. I guess I _can_ understand why, they want them to be potentially useful if they're seeing them...
To me though, sure, show me ads, fine, whatever, but don't build them around a profile of me to try to manipulate me directly based on my potential interests and behaviour. Any time I can disable any "personalisation" of ads, I do.
- sjwright 6y agoI just don’t like the idea of having my own devices conspire against me to compromise my own privacy.
- zo1 6y agoI would be fine with actual personalized ads. Hell, I'd give them even more data if they needed it to accomplish such a feat. But the best they can do is try sell me washing machines after I've already purchased one, or show me youtube snippets of scenes from Netflix shows I've watched recently (yes this one really did happen. No idea how, still checking).
- foxhop 6y ago"I'm fine with being manipulated with supernormal stimulus." aka being profiled and then targeted with ads.
- nulbyte 6y ago> It always surprises me when people say that they're fine with personalised ads I think there's a bit of a language barrier. What advertisers mean when they say "personalized" or "relevant" is not the same as what their audience means when they use the same words. I find advertisers often mean "what you looked at but didn't buy," but I think most consumers mean "what is likely to interest me."