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I wonder - if advertising wasn't so damned creepy - I look at ONE PAIR of boots on Zappos and they show up in advertisements incessantly - if people might not b

I wonder - if advertising wasn't so damned creepy - I look at ONE PAIR of boots on Zappos and they show up in advertisements incessantly - if people might not be so fast to try to escape the eerie feeling? Mix super-creepy-stop-watching-me advertising with a tech-savvy group that understands how cookies can be completely un-deletable, and it's no wonder ad-blocking is growing exponentially. I'm relatively amenable to looking at ads in exchange for content, but once ads start acting like or worse than spyware, the information exchange no longer feels so balanced. Stop being creepy, and people won't reject you! Maybe.

oh_sigh 11y ago
I find these advertisements to be the worst. I ALREADY BOUGHT THE BOOTS. I don't need more boots. I have the ones I wanted. And even if the ones I wanted sucked, now I feel shitty every time I see the ad, reminding me what a bad decision I made. I'm still not going to buy another pair.
- whoopdedo 11y ago
  It's worse when the product is for someone else. I bought a XBox game as a birthday present for my nephew. I don't own an XBox. Guess what Amazon keeps trying to sell me when I log in to their site? And I want Amazon to advertise to me. But even they have a hard time showing me relevant ads. How much more annoying will a smaller, less scrupulous advertiser be with my spending habits? If targeted advertising actually worked I might put up with it. Instead it's nothing but industrialized spam that wastes my time and consumes my bandwidth.