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Re:Only 17% of consumers believe personalized ads are ethica... by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Monday November 16, 2020 @03:11AM (#25109302)
What if they are not aiming for "efficiency" in the same sense as you are describing it. What looks grossly inefficient to us may actually meet the minimum level of "efficiency" these "entrepreneurs" of online advertising need to generate a return and declare their "business" a success.

How effective is spam? From the perspective of the spammer, it's effective enough.

In both cases, these forms of "business" are certainly effective in annoying a large number of people, a tradeoff the operators apparently deem worthy of making.

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Re:Only 17% of consumers believe personalized ads are ethica... by segfaultbuserr on Monday November 16, 2020 @03:18AM (#25109359)
Possible. It's why I said,

> advertisers are still unable to develop a perfectly manipulative algorithm that makes you buy things (edit: or they have it, but it's still not found in wider deployment).

Perhaps the expensive processor time or R&D just doesn't worth it...

Yet (But it's coming soon?).

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