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I just wish I could convince Google that I will never buy certain products that they force feed me ads on continuously. No, I will never buy a Chromebook, so p

• actionfromafar 3y ago
  How can you prove you are trustworthy?
• codetrotter 3y ago
  In fact, everyone should instead band together to finance development of more maximally open hardware for laptops and phones and tablets.
• genman 3y ago
  I bought my current car only because I was able to block the car maker being stupid and force me to watch their ads on Youtube. I didn't use ad-blocker before but interruptive video ads were the last straw for me.
• throwaway346434 3y ago
  We need to kick this up a notch, with automated recognition of the advertiser and either complaint letters generated to their sales team email addresses, a media regulator, or for those with physical stores, geofenced notifications on your device to remind you how intrusive the brand has been/directions to the nearest competitor's store at the tap of a button. You can absolutely advertise on an intrusive platform, but as consumers, we can aggressively boycott/make your marketing work against you.
• brookst 3y ago
  Everyone feels that way, but in a large population some percentage will be swayed. Display ads are a statistics game, not a transactional one.
  • bcrl 3y ago
    But there are oodles of other things that I would consider buying! They'd do better with random ideas for Christmas gifts for family members, which would be nice given that it is the season...
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• gnicholas 3y ago
  Yes, but they can get you to talk about Chromebooks and Android phones by advertising them incessantly. See, you just did it again!