No, I specifically don't like targeted advertising because it's invasive,
If it was an individual following you around learning what you do and what you like/want, you could charge them with stalking. But because it's not just one person, it's a multi-billion dollar company working for a privacy invading industry, it's suddenly OK?
The stalker is trying to intimidate or harass me for their own personal ends. People are bad, companies are in for profit.
The company will try and sell me more toilet paper because they know I have diarrhea. The multimillion dollar corporation is spying on me to make line go up. The thing people actually get angry about is the predictive ad which feel like it removes their autonomy.
The thing people forget when they get an personalised ad is that they are not the main character. Their behaviour is similar to others and the in the end the feeling that actions, even benign ones, can be predicted gets people upset.
It's like the guy today complaining that his TV is always listening to him. Yes, because Samsung can make a few cents for putting a Domino's ad on the TV when the word pizza is said. Oh but that means someone could access hundreds of thousands of hours of recordings! Of people talking in front of their TV. Of Hundreds of thousands of people. Oh but someone could access the recordings of my voice, determine a close family member, make a voice clone and get them to give them money!
I dunno, romance scammers seem to do just fine and that even works on people with 50 year old TVs.
Go fuck yourself.
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