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My simple solution I’m a 99 year old male. Good luck advertising to me.
Reverse mortgages. Walk-in tubs. Emergency call lanyards. Prearranged funerals. Rain gutter protection. Stair lifts. Arthritis liniment. Blood glucose monitors. No-medical life insurance. Prepared home-delivery meals. Assisted living domiciles. Denture cream. Believe me, there is no end to being a target market.
If only there were a service that: - Doesn't show ads, or steal your personal information. - Has all the content from every major streaming service. - Is scalable and efficient without a centralized single point of failure. - Can be used with 100% free and open source software. - Lets you keep your favorite shows forever without being subject to the whims of corporate licensing.
DVDs. What you're asking for is DVDs.
Where X is some thing that may or may not be what the the poster actually wants, but the temptation to own them by saying it already exists is too great.
I'm so exhausted from constant advertisements. I'm so tired of my information being sold off to third parties in order to deliver ads. I'm so tired of good, useful tools and services requiring a forfeit of my privacy in order to use them. Does anyone else wish that they could just exist without being told to buy something every 15 waking minutes?
Me too. My building has the gall to occasionally put ads in the lobby. A private entirely residential building. It's ridiculous.
I'm so exhausted from constant advertisements. I'm so tired of my information being sold off to third parties in order to deliver ads. I'm so tired of good, useful tools and services requiring a forfeit of my privacy in order to use them. Does anyone else wish that they could just exist without being told to buy something every 15 waking minutes?
Have you considered supporting an alternative system to capitalism? I don’t see this changing anytime soon because it is so profitable in our current system.
I'm so exhausted from constant advertisements. I'm so tired of my information being sold off to third parties in order to deliver ads. I'm so tired of good, useful tools and services requiring a forfeit of my privacy in order to use them. Does anyone else wish that they could just exist without being told to buy something every 15 waking minutes?
You have pretty much summarized the thinking that led me to build: 1. my own SmartWatch 2. a tool to remove iTunes DRM so that my TV can stay offline 3. fully offline speech recognition 4. a beefy Linux workstation 5. set up a pi-hole 6. patched LineageOS to work on my phone And now my life is pretty much ad-free :)
We should have regulations so that everyone can enjoy this level of privacy easily.
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If there was a 300 dimensional vector expressing your nuanced gender identity that would be even better, but advertisers would have no idea how to target it (at least at first).
> advertisers would have no idea how to target it (at least at first). It would take very little time to reap massive efficiencies in targeting, and the rest would be long-tail that would be discovered as budget allowed.
You would spend some time and money doing randomized exploration (maybe something more sophisticated with active learning, but just uniform random could work), then train a basic bidder to optimize whatever you are currently interested in.
The process of manually deciding which tags fit which ads is not long for this world.
Coppa "Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule ("COPPA")" If the kids is below 13, targeting would probably not be allowed. "The act, effective April 21, 2000, applies to the online collection of personal information by persons or entities under U.S. jurisdiction about children under 13 years of age, including children outside the U.S. if the website or service is U.S.-based.[1] It details what a website operator m…
Indeed. I don't understand the outrage at wanting to know the age of your customer, especially when: a) there are laws involved b) you have a variety of content/products specifically aimed at different ages I won't speak to gender, that's certainly a different concept, but age doesn't exact ring alarm bells for me here.
“Comply with age-related legal obligations
“Personalize your content and experiences
“Deliver targeted advertising to you”
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Disney: “Gendered stereotypes are harmful — be more inclusive!” Also Disney: “Tell us your gender so we can target ads based on that!” I would take DIE advocates more seriously if they reformed themselves — rather than lecturing the rest of us while engaging in such blatant hypocrisy.
I have dim memories of lego positioning their stuff as gender-neutral when I was a kid. That went comprehensively out the window in the mid-90s or so, presumably when some lego marketer discovered the (dubious) joys of market segmentation.
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You're right, but I think that takes the spirit of the issue a bit too far. In my experience, it's highly dependent on where you live. Where I live, which is somewhere between urban and suburban, there really aren't enough ads plastered everywhere such that it's at all interrupting. I don't think most people outright hate every single form of advertising – it's the frequent interruption, obnoxious music, unreasonable…
No, it really doesn't take it too far. If anything, it doesn't go far enough. You know those ads in Minority Report that track people viewing them? They're here now. Maybe not out on the street, and maybe not via retinal scan per se , but there certainly are eye tracking and facial recognition technologies watching to see if you're looking in the direction of indoor digital ads.
Retinal scan no but face scanning is very feasible. The Chinese government has made an art out of this and will have no qualms selling it to western companies.
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Why in the world do they then collect all that data on us in general if ads still use age and gender for the highest value signals? Those are terrible signals and really should be replaced with something better.
They're not terrible signals. They're by far the highest-signal metrics that have been found for ad targeting. Legions of engineers and data scientist and project managers have been working on finding better metrics for a decade, and there hasn't been one found.