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> Who benefits from this? Advertisers because customers are more likely to buy things. Customers because they see things that are more relevant.. --- In my
by 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..
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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 agoAdvertisers 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 agoWhen 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 agoMaybe they should track you some more, to understand when you bought the car ;)
- jqpabc123 3y agoOr maybe we can just make this idiocy and the privacy invasion it feeds on illegal.
- singleshot_ 3y agoI 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.