I need to know this for a class, but let’s say that everything on the internet was manipulated so that you would see things that you would want, through cookies and such put onto your computer?
Please leave your age, I need people 28 and older to answer, but if you’re younger, I’d like the comparison too! 
Thanks!
Category : Internet Marketing
I would hate that. I don’t want anything that attempts to manipulate people into buying things. In fact I try to avoid buying things that are advertised on annoying commercials. That sort of thing would really bother me. I’m 58.
I’d still find it offensive, a burden, and a total invasion of my privacy.
Let’s just call this what it is–it’s spam. Ads are spam. ALL ADS ARE SPAM. They are never content–they are there to interrupt content. And why? To sell you an inferior good. A superior good sells itself, and a normal good gets bought with only minimal attention brought to it.
All ads do is interrupt and disturb an otherwise pleasant experience–be it television or the internet–and _shout_ at you in a vain attempt to get you to waste your money on an inferior, junk good. That’s all they ever are and that’s all they ever do.
I wouldn’t care how “targeted” the “marketing” was, ads are ads, spam is spam. It’s still an interruption of my content that I actually came to see (and paid to see–since I am a paying customer when it comes to my internet service), and on top of this it’s now a complete invasion of my privacy too. Does the whole world NEED to know exactly what sort of pizza I like and what toppings are on it down to the last detail? Does the whole world need to know what clothes I was wearing down to the shoelaces, when I last picked up a pizza order?
No they don’t, sorry. Not for Spamming purposes.
I’m 44 years old and male–old enough to remember that originally, cable, or “subscription television” was supposed to be mostly Ad-Free. What happened to that?
Greed, and a lack of restraint, that’s what.
I’m 29 years old and this topic has its ups and downs. First, if you use a computer and you’re on the Internet (which everyone here is) you’re subject to seeing ads based on your search history. If you hop over to a search engine and start looking up camp sites or something related to camping I’m sure you’ll start seeing camp ads around your screen. Same thing for cell phones, ESPECIALLY cell phones and cell phone service. That market pays a lot of money to be high on the search engines.
I can see how some privacy groups would complain about companies marketing to your individual tastes but I personally don’t have any issues with it.