Well it's also now fuelling dynamic pricing and in it's worst form, "pain-point" pricing.

Just because he didn't type it in himself, doesn't mean noone did. For advertising it is not needed that you are searching yourself Tracking the Microphone without the approval of everyone that could be heard, wouldn't even be legal here in Germany since DSGVO (and probably the rest of the EU since it's the German implementation of GDPR). What they still can do is tracking what everyone Else searches as well as analyze which Phone ist close by. Are you in the same WiFi range as others? Are you in bluetooth range? Is your Location Data matching? What ist the location you are currently in?

In this case I'd say some of the doctors or nurses searched for it and treated it afterwards, so the phones we're in range often/for a longer period of time. They will now what job they have. Now this guy comes in, they search for saw wounds and then contact him often.

Which data from where suggests this?

sometimes it's even buisnesses that can't do buisness where you live

Stephen... Steve... Relax, my friend. There's no reason to tell all these nice people about all that. Especially with Folger's in your cup. Mmmmm Folger's crystals lock in that flavor. The flavor that reminds us of that time in college when you decided to try eating ass after that house party that one night. You remember that, right Steve? That was fun. Folger's is there for you.

Yeahhhhhh it's not just for commercial purposes.

It's wild isn't it. They spend all their time profiling me and working out what I'm interested in and developing detailed groups. If I turn on a VPN, suddenly I'm Canadian they have no idea who I am, and the adverts are in French.

Oh and of course Microsoft cannot keep me signed in across all of their services because apparently keeping track of that, would be impossible.

I have never managed to accumulate more than like $5, and usually I just dump it into Coins in Pokemon Go.

I used to do those until I realized the credits expire then I decided "fuck it, don't care then." I had racked up something like $35 in Google play credit, but I noticed my balance was like $12 one day because apparently I didn't spend it fast enough. Get fucked Google. Just keep taking my data instead of asking me for it then.

There are three kinds of lies

I've had similar exchanges with people where they'll start with "have you seen the ad where..." and before I've even heard the details I say "I don't watch ads," but they'll follow up with "No you've definitely seen this one, it's unavoidable," and then they proceed to describe something I've never seen because I don't watch ads. Not only do I have ad blocking on every device that I use, I actively choose my entertainment based on what doesn't have ads or can be adblocked. If the only way for me to use a given platform is to tolerate ads, I just don't use it.

Data suggests over 50% of Internet users use some kind of adblocking software. People who do nothing and accept ads are in the minority.

Watching the superbowl for the ads is so much more embarrassing than reading playboy for the articles lmao

Yep. Guy I know cut off his finger using a table saw. They were able to sew it back on, and he was fine. But while he was recovering in the ER, his phone was served up ads for Sawstops (for those who aren’t into woodworking, these are table saws with advanced safety features that would have prevented this injury).

At that point he hadn’t even typed in on his phone yet what happened, but obviously people (himself, doctors, nurses, intake folks, etc) had been discussing the accident around him for hours at that point. It was pretty obvious that on some level his phone was listening to what was talked about. This was in 2012…

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

They've basically dismantled society so Amazon can think I'm some kind of toilet seat and/or chainsaw collector. Clown shit.

They just raise prices to compensate for the advertising budget. Sounds easy to justify when you make the assumption that reaching more people would generate more return. Perversely customers wind up paying more for the very thing that pays for the ads that get shoved in their faces.

Somewhere along the path from the boardroom to the consumer's eyes, advertising still works. If they stop advertising, they sell less, that's a metric they can measure and I'm sure they do, or at least have. Exactly how it works may be more art than science and not as well understood as they like to claim, but the numbers don't lie.

Nope. I worked as a marketing director before I remembered that I have a soul. A radio advertising rep tried to sell me passive listening ads.

According to that rep selling this service, it worked like this: All of these devices, including your phone, passively listen for keywords that get repeated frequently enough in a short enough window. They feed those words back to the mothership. An ad is then delivered across all ID associated devices targeted toward that keyword. This process is delivering an ad within 45 minutes.

For example, you talk about needing a new tent, you're gonna say tent and camping a few times in that convo. Camping/tent get beamed up. Within 45 minutes, you're seeing tent/camping ads in your apps and on websites across all of your devices because of your advertising ID.

It is not coincidence. They are literally selling this feature to their clients.

We get more users here?

We start downloading and rendering the ads in a virtual machine?

This, and coupled with the fact that businesses cross state and international lines. They’re not just competing with local businesses (which get drowned out in the noise created by the volume of money spent by big business) but they’re competing sometimes with national and international businesses. So 50 years ago you probably had to put up with mostly local stuff but maybe a national business like a car maker or airline, now it’s everyone that can do business where you live or might be.

If it ever comes to pass that I can't learn or figure out a way to block ads, I'll stop visiting sites that show ads. Obviously, that will severely limit my choices, but probably that's a good thing.

Actually, data suggests that over 50% of internet users are using some kind of adblockers. Looking at ads is absolutely “not the norm.” Using adblock software just makes one part of the largest consumer boycott in history.

I'm no longer convinced by this line of reasoning. They wouldn't waste money on meetings if they didn't break even. They wouldn't waste money on physical offices if they didn't break even. They wouldn't use chat bots if they didn't break even.

What we have isn't an efficient rational market. It's just a bunch of superstitions from business school.

Imagine if you and a friend entered a large, empty cafeteria, got your meal, sat down, and started eating. It would be so quiet your voices would echo. Then two more people come in and do the same thing. They start talking and it gets just a little bit more difficult to hear your conversation, so you and your friend start talking louder. Then more and more people come in start talking and the background noise gets louder than the foreground sound until you need to wear earplugs just to hear yourself chew.

That is the state of advertising. If only one player in a market advertised, they might derive some advantage but now people have to pay advertisers to scream the name of their product just because their competition does and no one can even hear the name of the product because everyone is screaming.