Sunday, December 18, 2011

Idiot Internet advertising

Why is the internet so STUPID ? Rather than ASKING for your permission or ASKING exactly what you're looking for when you want to buy something, advertisers track you without your permission and stupidly and blindly guess at what you might be wanting to buy next. It's clutter and rubbish.

How about this - I enter a list of things I might be buying and a time frame (and where - I'm not going to buy a loaf of bread from the Ukraine when I'm in the US, but if I'm going there on vacation, I might). I can enter exact specifications (I want shoes with a gore-tex lining and a leather midsole) - and the advertisers throw me ads for what they've got that most closely matches my criteria.

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