> but behavioral targeting is good for small businesses Call me selfish, but my concern is not for businesses of any size. I don't want to be followed around t

> but behavioral targeting is good for small businesses Call me selfish, but my concern is not for businesses of any size. I don't want to be followed around the Internet any more than I want to be followed around in my “real” daily life. I'm fine with adverts based on what I am currently looking at and/or where I am (the latter at a granular level: country/region/city, not more precise). Anything more than that involves tracking and storing data that I consider an intrusion. Some might disagree with the granular location even, though without that you can't simulate something like posters in local shop windows advertising local events (which to me feels valid). If I'm looking at technical things¹, by all means advertise technical things¹ at me. Heck, feel free to blanket advertise your technical things¹ more widely. But I don't want targetted advertising for technical things to stalk me when I'm booking a holiday or doing my weekly shop online, any more than I'd want someone following me into the travel agent or supermarket, tapping me on the shoulder and saying “I hear you've been looking at laptops, could I interest you in …”. Small or not, I don't want a business following me around. -- [1] replace “technical things” with anything else I might have looked at or been shopping for: running shoes, martial arts equipment, groceries, recipes, scifi books, books in general, TV listings, etc.