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Advertising Personalization: Good for You? (zgp.org)
1 point by ksec 3 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



The root of the problem here is that ads by their nature have gone from making consumers aware of offerings to creating demand. When ads that create demand are targeted at users they are by their very nature predatory. Technology is just a red herring here. The real problem is the weaponization of advertising as a means to create demand for a product that a rational person in another context would not want.




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