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goobster  ·  1667 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Google: Building a more private web

    It is content that I did not ask for that interferes with the content that I did ask for and it does so through imperfect statistics.

Which is exactly the opposite of what I am championing. I want to know when flights to Reykjavik are below $500, because I am going there in March. If my Economist article is supported by ads for PRODUCTS I WANT AND AM CURRENTLY SHOPPING FOR, 100% of my screen real estate is valuable to me.

    Even you, arguing that advertising could theoretically be useful, refer to it as "potential landmines."

Um. No. I said that the existing form of ads are screen landmines that are dangerous to click on.





kleinbl00  ·  1667 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Google, the largest advertising organization in the world, will absolutely email you alerts whenever the price for a flight to Reykjavik goes below $500 in March. This thing that you think needs to be pushed at you via advertising is a three-click pull setup from the company that has 41% of the digital marketshare in the world.

You're arguing that if your can opener were a better can opener it'd make a better daquiri. My argument is that can openers will never make decent daquiris.