Google and Facebook violate privacy and skim the edge of what's legal just to attempt (and usually fail) to show you...

>Google and Facebook violate privacy and skim the edge of what's legal just to attempt (and usually fail) to show you adverts that interest you
Why don't Google and Facebook just ask users what adverts they want to see?
I'd be happy to tell Google two things since I'm not completely paranoid:
>I have zero disposable income stop showing me adverts for expensive cars and instead show me more adverts showing me ways to earn money
>I'm hella kinky and want to be lewd stuff when I have disposable income

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>I'd be happy to tell Google two things
>my income and sexual preferences
You're not going to find a lot of support for that here.

They don't care what you want. They care what the average person wants, mass production and all that. You not fitting that doesn't matter to them. Advertisers pay them to make sure every normalfag sees the normalfag things they are churning out of sweatshops. They would be richer if you were dead, and everyone alive were a normalfag who liked exactly the same things as every other normalfag.

I hate the freaking boob sweater meme. Luckily it was just a silly fad and nearly nobody draws it anymore. But at one point all the porn sites were literally unusable because they were flooded with these.

>acting so deep and redpilled
Sometimes the thing in the best interests of everyone is also in the best interests of global powers everyone hates, and said powers are just being short-sighted.

I'm pretty sure automobile advertisers aren't happy with the fact that 90% of the people they advertise to can't afford what they're advertising, and Google isn't happy with their poor ad relevancy causing everyone to block adverts.

>Why don't Google and Facebook just ask users what adverts they want to see?
Because then everyone would tell Google and Facebook the truth - that they aren't interested in seeing any advertisements - and businesses would stop paying Google and Facebook piles of money to shove ads in your face.

Nothing is in the best interests of everyone you foolish child.

Ad relevancy is, by definition, in the best interests of everyone.
Showing relevant adverts means you're showing someone want they want to see (good for them) and therefore buy (good for you).

Google's privacy policy affords special protection to your sexuality, I think.

Might even have been that way before the EU drew a red line in the sand with regards to that.

why don't people stop using google and facebook?
oh right, most people don't care about privacy as deeply, and they readily sacrifice it for convenience

and in a free market, the most convenient thing wins. you can make a privacy-conscientious website that performs as well as the big guys and put an end to it, but as it stands, most people don't try that hard to combat it so things stay the way they are.

i think having stricter privacy laws is stupid because people are only doing this to themselves and businesses are more than willing to comply. what i do *really* hate is how some businesses do not value data security (look at equifax and the countless other breaches done to various websites). preventing security breaches is actually a valid reason for law enforcement to step in, because a breached business is actually violating their privacy policy if their user data ends up in the wrong hands.

the only things i see making headway are things like the federated twitter replacement, and even that isn't in wide enough use for "everyone" to end up making the switch

Is it in the best interests of the people in countries whose entire economies are beholden to Apple, Samsung, and Sony but want autarky?
You live in a bubble of ignorance which resembles a rectum.

>Why don't Google and Facebook just ask users what adverts they want to see?
Because you don't know what's out there TO want. That's the point of using advertisements to inform you.

They believe they know better than you do. They probably do.

People would sell their kids and themselves into serfdom or slavery or whatever else if it seemed convenient short-term. And everyone could be constantly exposed to abusive scam contracts from the most simple sale over loans to anything more complex.
You either have legislators and police plus societal norms to keep things sane, or you don't.

well there you go OP, humans suck

While people don't know what individual products and services are out there, they generally have a good idea of what scope the thing they want lies in.
Google can already show you adverts in a certain scope if it's able to find out what you need, but Google insists on being sneaky about how they find out what you need, rather than just asking you.

If you could tell Google "I need new shoes" it would easily be able to tailor relevant adverts for you. You can, in fact, do this: If you do a livestream on YouTube, and talk about a product, you will very quickly get advertisements for that product because when you upload your voice to YouTube it's free game for data harvesting.

>tfw 3d will never look this good.

And yet 2D is always trying to look like 3D

>poor ad relevancy causing everyone to block adverts
wat

i just block ads, i dont care, just fuk

But what if you saw ads that were actually interesting for things you found genuinely interesting, and thus you didn't have adds for literally everything constantly shoved down your throat?

that's not a thing that happens in the real world

The video you're getting that live stream idea from was fake, retard. Even then the problem is more likely to be your voice activated phone or cortana.

I'm against ads on a philosophical level. Ads are literally psychological warfare in an attempt to get you to buy stuff you don't actually need. If I needed it, I'd go looking for it. That's the only time an advertisement is warranted: when I'm actively looking for a solution to my problem.

nice

That philosophy is inapplicable in this case though, because the very point of this idea is that you can set the adverts to be for things you do both need and can afford.
And if you need nothing, then lucky you!

Remember those fucking cat cutouts? Those were way worse.

I think most people block ads because they don't want to see ads, not because the ads aren't relevant to them.

The point of advertising is to convince you to think that you need stuff that you don't need. If you really do need something, you'll go out looking for it, and not need it advertised to you. Either way there's no benefit to me from being advertised to, only downsides.