Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads

Re:Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads by sean2 on Friday June 23, 2017 @04:52PM (#14622685)

Here's why I prefer irrelevant ads:

1. Targeted ads catch my attention better. Frequently I don't even notice or remember irrelevant adds.

2. Targeted ads are almost always, SEOed (if you will) to me; that is, they seem relevant, they offer the solution needed to fix the precise problem I'm discussing in the email chain, I click, I read, I would buy, but I realize that the product offered is nothing like what I've been reading about on the landing page.

3. Targeted adds are much more effective at convincing me to spend money on stuff or services that I could have lived without.

Sure, I should toughen up mentally against ads, but until I do, I protect myself from ads that will manipulate me and one way to do that is to prefer irrelevant ads when I need to see them.

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Re:Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads by sowbug on Friday June 23, 2017 @08:03PM (#14623666)

I'm curious how you make a living and whether the business you're in relies on advertising to sustain itself. Perhaps I'm reading too much into your post, but I detect a value judgment that businesses trying to be businesses (i.e., selling you stuff) is a bad thing.

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Re:Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads by amelius on Friday June 23, 2017 @10:01PM (#14624020)

It's a bad thing if the business with the biggest advertisement budget wins, rather than the business with the best (or most fitting) product.

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