This is new for me: At the same time, the Clinton administration endorsed surveillance advertising as a business model, so there was an incentive to gather d

This is new for me: At the same time, the Clinton administration endorsed surveillance advertising as a business model, so there was an incentive to gather data about your customers in order to sell to them. I assumed the lack of trustworthy small payments on the internet pushed adtech forward as an alternative income source, even without the governement endorsing anything. Does someone know more?