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Re:How to See What the Internet Knows About You by propogandist on Saturday July 08, 2017 @12:34AM (#14724098)
TV ads are overpriced garbage, spray and pray. YT is getting into the TV business to show you targeted ads. You clearly are unaware of the motivations of the ad industry and advertisers... we want to know everything about consumers, so the ad can hit them at the right moment in time and/or influence you to do our bidding.

The whole target pages, not people...that's the old way of advertising and the performance is garbage. It's better to find people, whenever they are on the web -- within reason -- whenever they may be exhibiting any sort of buying intent.

Block the ads, scripts and cookies etc., if you don't want to be tracked digitally. Ad targeting will only improve.

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Re:How to See What the Internet Knows About You by tjoff on Saturday July 08, 2017 @09:08AM (#14725298)
"so the ad can hit them at the right moment in time and/or influence you to do our bidding."

... yet they can't, not in a million years. And yet we sold our privacy so that they could barely attempt something.

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