> I wouldn't mind ads if they were ... accurate, and would just advertise what I want to see "Accurate" doesn't necessarily mean "what you want to see". The qu

> I wouldn't mind ads if they were ... accurate, and would just advertise what I want to see "Accurate" doesn't necessarily mean "what you want to see". The quip of "more relevant ads" sounds nice, but it just means they're tuned to you specifically, not that they're tuned to what you want to see. As an example, if it is possible to accurately target people with particular voting preferences, it is possible to show them links to articles about how individual votes don't matter and otherwise discourage them from voting. That's more accurate, but not desirable.