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Because it violates my privacy, wastes my time, attention and communication bandwidth and advertisers money --- which in turn promotes price inflation that effe

Because it violates my privacy, wastes my time, attention and communication bandwidth and advertisers money --- which in turn promotes price inflation that effects everyone. Visit automobile dealership web sites and you'll have auto ads following you all over the internet for months --- long after you're already bought a car. Who benefits from this?

JacobThreeThree 3y ago
Businesses benefit because they can find customers.
paulddraper 3y ago
> Who benefits from this? Advertisers because customers are more likely to buy things. Customers because they see things that are more relevant.. --- In my experience, what people don't like is ads. Full stop. They think they don't like personalized ads, but what they actually don't like is ads.
- jqpabc123 3y ago
  Advertisers because customers are more likely to buy things. Nobody benefits from showing me car ads *after* I have already bought a car. ...what they actually don't like is ads. No, it's *personalized* ads --- ads that are totally divorced from any logical or reasonable context. It's stupid to assume that I'm still interested in buying a product from last week when I'm viewing a totally unrelated web site. Personalized ads are just plain dumb most of the time.
  - paulddraper 3y ago
    > Nobody benefits from showing me car ads after I have already bought a car. Fair enough. But what about after shopping for a car?
    - jqpabc123 3y ago
      When I am on a car dealership web site, car related ads are fine, possibly even beneficial. There is a name for this, it is called "context sensitive" ads --- not nearly as dumb or annoying as "personalized".
      - paulddraper 3y ago
        Maybe they should track you some more, to understand when you bought the car ;)
        jqpabc123 3y ago
        Or maybe we can just make this idiocy and the privacy invasion it feeds on illegal.
- singleshot_ 3y ago
  I have never in my entire life seen a relevant ad. You know, one that encourages me to spend quality time with my family, or one that brings to my attention techniques I can use to achieve inner peace. Instead, all I get are uniformly unnecessary and unpleasant entreaties to purchase things which I don’t want or need, which I already know about, or which I could find out about with minimal effort.

JacobThreeThree 3y ago

Businesses benefit because they can find customers.

paulddraper 3y ago

> Who benefits from this? Advertisers because customers are more likely to buy things. Customers because they see things that are more relevant.. --- In my experience, what people don't like is ads. Full stop. They think they don't like personalized ads, but what they actually don't like is ads.

jqpabc123 3y ago
Advertisers because customers are more likely to buy things. Nobody benefits from showing me car ads *after* I have already bought a car. ...what they actually don't like is ads. No, it's *personalized* ads --- ads that are totally divorced from any logical or reasonable context. It's stupid to assume that I'm still interested in buying a product from last week when I'm viewing a totally unrelated web site. Personalized ads are just plain dumb most of the time.
- paulddraper 3y ago
  > Nobody benefits from showing me car ads after I have already bought a car. Fair enough. But what about after shopping for a car?
  - jqpabc123 3y ago
    When I am on a car dealership web site, car related ads are fine, possibly even beneficial. There is a name for this, it is called "context sensitive" ads --- not nearly as dumb or annoying as "personalized".
    - paulddraper 3y ago
      Maybe they should track you some more, to understand when you bought the car ;)
      - jqpabc123 3y ago
        Or maybe we can just make this idiocy and the privacy invasion it feeds on illegal.
singleshot_ 3y ago
I have never in my entire life seen a relevant ad. You know, one that encourages me to spend quality time with my family, or one that brings to my attention techniques I can use to achieve inner peace. Instead, all I get are uniformly unnecessary and unpleasant entreaties to purchase things which I don’t want or need, which I already know about, or which I could find out about with minimal effort.