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> It's almost confidence-inspiring. Like how evil-overlord can this be if they can't even get this basic stuff right? In the same vein, consider that ad agenci
by nemo1618 5y ago
> It's almost confidence-inspiring. Like how evil-overlord can this be if they can't even get this basic stuff right?
In the same vein, consider that ad agencies have spent millions of man-hours and many billions of dollars essentially trying to control your brain, and this (the status quo) is the best they've come up with. All of that effort, and they can't even get me to buy a 12-pack of Coke when I shop for groceries, even though I like Coke!
- zo1 5y agoMeta-take on it: Maybe you as the consumer aren't their target. Maybe it's the businesses that they've successfully "tricked" into thinking that advertising works. For that to work, they need lots of "metrics", "knobs and dials", graphs, "conversion funnels" and a myriad of other doo-dads that can be used to give the impression that they're doing something useful. Hence the focus on tracking, I'd argue.