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Re:Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising? by qwerty456127 on Monday March 23, 2020 @09:33AM (#22663936)
Targeted advertising is not the problem. The problem is it motivates them to collect too much data about you. And once they have it they can misuse it or give it (voluntarily or not) to someone else. There already have been cases when Google reported an innocent man to the police so he was put in prison.
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Re:Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising? by gtyras2mrs on Monday March 23, 2020 @10:38AM (#22664494)
Parent comment seems to suggest the same thing.

Ban the collection of data for targeted advertising. Instead the only data that targeted ads can use would be provided by the user voluntarily. Not collected. No checkbox for consent.

If user wants the advertiser (say Google) to know something - they need to enter that in on a form.

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