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Re: A Dangerous Question: Does Internet Advertising Work at All?

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On Wed, 10 Sep 2014, Mike Spencer wrote:

>
> Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> That, and advertising has so completely inundated our lives that in
>> order to maintain any semblence of sanity I have to consciously block
>> it even while walking down the street. It's in our newspapers, books,
>> TV, Internet, radio, on our clothes, our cars, and even on our food
>> packaging. It's everywhere. Want ads to be more effective, Mr.
>> Marketeer? Have less of it around so when I actually see an
>> advertisment it will actually be noteworthy.
>
> At home I use Netscape 4.76 with js, stylesheets and images disabled.
> Recently I bought a new laptop, installed the latest Slackware, so's
> to be able to go out to wi-fi-land to fetch big data lumps such as new
> Linux distros or reference data without hogging the phone for days at
> a time.  And every time I run Firefox on wi-fi I'm just *shocked*,
> totally gobsmacked, to see how much advertizing crap I've been
> missing.  Not to mention the banners, icons, stock photos, 50K
> pictures of 5-letter words etc. etc all laid out by someone with the
> same aesthics as the people who design the the glossy advertizing
> blow-ins for K-Mart.  It's just visually nasty out there. I'm fher nf
> fuvg not going to buy a product that scatters visual pigeon poo on the
> screen of *my* network tool.
>
It gets worse.  For some weird reason, I can't sign out of gmail on my 
Microsoft Surface 2 tablet (I won it in a contest), so it really tracks me 
well.  I'll check something at llBean, and wham, I keep seeing those 
clearance shoes all over the place.  I check Mountain Equipment Coop last 
night, and then an hour later, wham, their ad was on a webpage.

I realize there's no magic, they are displaying ads to match me, but under 
those conditions, it's no longer vague ads that I won't buy from, it's 
things I was looking at and they keep nagging at me, as if I was really 
going to buy, rather than merely looking at it wondering if it was 
suitable to buy.  Nagging me won't make me buy sooner.

   Michael

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A Dangerous Question: Does Internet Advertising Work at All? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-09 02:57 +0000
  Re: A Dangerous Question: Does Internet Advertising Work at All? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-09-09 07:58 +0000
  Re: A Dangerous Question: Does Internet Advertising Work at All? Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-09-09 20:15 +1000
  Re: A Dangerous Question: Does Internet Advertising Work at All? Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2014-09-09 16:14 +0000
    Re: A Dangerous Question: Does Internet Advertising Work at All? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-09-09 19:23 +0000
      Re: A Dangerous Question: Does Internet Advertising Work at All? Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2014-09-10 09:18 -0400
        Re: A Dangerous Question: Does Internet Advertising Work at All? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-10 16:28 +0000
        Re: A Dangerous Question: Does Internet Advertising Work at All? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2014-09-10 16:37 -0300
          Re: A Dangerous Question: Does Internet Advertising Work at All? Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2014-09-10 20:10 +0000
          Re: A Dangerous Question: Does Internet Advertising Work at All? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-09-10 20:35 -0400
            Re: A Dangerous Question: Does Internet Advertising Work at All? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2014-09-11 10:24 +0300
          Re: A Dangerous Question: Does Internet Advertising Work at All? Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-09-13 10:51 +0200
            Re: A Dangerous Question: Does Internet Advertising Work at All? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2014-09-13 15:51 -0300
        Re: A Dangerous Question: Does Internet Advertising Work at All? Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-09-13 04:17 +0200

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