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Re:Do customers benefit from highly targeted online ads? by darpa_escapee on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @07:00PM (#11680075)
Unfortunately, nobody is above the psychological mechanisms that advertising exploits.

It is manipulation that sidesteps rationality and hijacks a supposedly 'free actor'. This is why it must be eliminated.

Re:Do customers benefit from highly targeted online ads? by Theo59 on Sunday May 15, 2016 @09:31AM (#11700824)
If it weren't for a Facebook ad I probably wouldn't have had a skin condition checked out that turned out to be incurable without medication. This is the opposite of exploitation.

After this experience I began to trust this form of targeting but still think 'retargetting' is annoying (I publicly stumped one of the execs at Adroll when I asked 'why do we need retargetting?')