But it's not blocked. Cross site tracking is blocked. That's privacy. The sites can still have generic ads. When you read a magazine or watch a tv show, those ads don't know the other magizines you've read or shows you've watched.Content on the internet costs money to produce. Advertising pays the bills for site hosting and content creation.
I don't know why people revel in blocking the revenue streams that grant them these things.
Content on the internet costs money to produce. Advertising pays the bills for site hosting and content creation.
I don't know why people revel in blocking the revenue streams that grant them these things.
Fair enough, but I see a few current and future problems with this.
1. Just because I look at something doesn't guarantee I am another more than mildly curious. Continuing to bombard me with "please buy this..." ad's will make me less likely to casually browse in the future.
2. Continuing to push ad's for things I'm already looking at means that you aren't pushing for new things. If I'm already looking at a product... show me something different!
3. Repetitious advertisements are ignored. How many times has you watched something on Hulu only to be shown the same 2-3 commercials repeatedly? Not effective.
4. The biggest problem, in my opinion and experience, is that consumers are becoming dull to the effects of advertisement. We see them on TV, websites, in our bills, in email, on billboards, in stores, etc. When does that stop being effective? It's information overload.
...I don't want to look at an item on Amazon and then have that item show up on every other website I visit for 6 months. It's the tracking and targeting of ads that I don't like, not the ads themselves. ...
Who the **** loves ads!?
Content on the internet costs money to produce. Advertising pays the bills for site hosting and content creation.
I don't know why people revel in blocking the revenue streams that grant them these things.
If I look at a pair of pants in the store, every billboard on the way home isn't showing me those pants.
As someone who works in paid media, this is going to be a pain in the butt. Retargeted marketing is very effective. Plus if you're going to get ads, do you want them to be for stuff you actually like? A lot of the time special deals are offered to people with targeted marketing.
Whatever happened to the idea of ads being creative and entertaining? Everyone loves watching Super Bowl ads, why is the internet just chock full of lazy, uninspired, obnoxious spam instead...
i'm glad you're here, because I get to tell you: your targeting algorithms stink! Mostly I get ads trying to get me to buy something I looked at once and decided NOT to buy. It's like a salesman chasing you down the street after you left his store. It's creepy and makes me angry at the vendor. It's possible I would change my mind about targeted ads if your targeting was any good. Right now, your tech isn't good enough, and the experience you create sucks. In its current state, it's not worth 1% of the privacy I have to give up, nor the creepy experience. Get better, or get out.
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What, you're not absolutely intrigued by what celebrities looked like, THEN... and NOW?
This is the key. Cross-site ads are annoying and intrusive.
Worse, if my kids use my computer to go search for something on Amazon, I end up seeing the ads everywhere and forever.
Not long ago, one of them linked through to Amazon from a website that listed funny reviews. I started getting ads for things like the Squatty-Potty, 5 pound bags of Gummy Bears, and 55 gallon barrels of lube....awesome....
Plus if you're going to get ads, do you want them to be for stuff you actually like?
See my post further up. Many advertisers dont use re-targeting correctly.
Content on the internet costs money to produce. Advertising pays the bills for site hosting and content creation.
I don't know why people revel in blocking the revenue streams that grant them these things.