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Re:Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising? by clarry on Monday March 23, 2020 @09:12AM (#22663763)
> Niche products become nonviable. If you can't reach out to your customers, they have to reach out to you.

Umm, I think this is largely the reality for niche products right now, with advertising. I don't see ads for niche products, and I don't see producers of niche products paying for ads because a small campaign wouldn't reach the right audience and a large campaign would be too expensive for a niche product.

Re:Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising? by avalys on Monday March 23, 2020 @09:14AM (#22663777)
This is exactly the problem that highly targeted advertising solves. I see ads for relatively niche products fairly often.
Re:Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising? by clarry on Monday March 23, 2020 @09:20AM (#22663818)
YMMV. I don't recall seeing anything remotely relevant, so maybe it's not a working solution.