Targeted Ads Privacy Debate
The cluster debates the trade-offs between personalized, targeted advertising—which many see as more relevant—and the privacy invasions from user tracking and data collection, with strong preferences for non-targeted or contextual ads to avoid surveillance.
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What's wrong with showing personalized ads?
Someone might think: surely seeing ads targeted for them instead of random ads must be useful / beneficial for the user!
people don't want to be spied on, if they have to suffer ads they'd rather suffer generic ads than be spied on.
It's not the ads you are consenting to, its the personal data collection and targeting.You could have non-personalized, or contextual ads. But those are much less effective.
ads targeted to me are more likely to convince me to spend money - so it's in my interest to make sure ads know less about me so I make less impulse purchases?
Targeted ads require the collection of personal data that I don't want to be collected. Untargeted ads don't.
As long as you don't frame it as data gathering for targeted ads.
That's a huge assumption on your end, that people like the results of ads more than they do not want to be tracked.
What for? What is your threat model? Getting ads for things you are actually interested in?
So your complaint is that the ads don't know more about you?