One thing I've been contemplating lately is that from a business perspective, when your competitors expand their revenue avenues (generally through ads) you have three options: copy them to catch up, do nothing and perish, and lobby the government for increased consumer protections.
I've started to wonder why we see so few companies do this. It's always "evil company lobbying to harm the its customers and the nation." Companies are made up of people, and for myself, if I was at a company I would be pushing to lobby on behalf of consumers to be able to keep a moral center and sleep at night. I am strongly for making money, but there are certain things I am not willing to do for it.
Targeted advertising is one of these things that I believe deserves to fully die. I have nothing against general analytics, nor gathering data about trends etc, but stalking every single person on the internet 24/7 is something people are put in jail for if they do it in person.
I've started to wonder why we see so few companies do this. It's always "evil company lobbying to harm the its customers and the nation." Companies are made up of people, and for myself, if I was at a company I would be pushing to lobby on behalf of consumers to be able to keep a moral center and sleep at night. I am strongly for making money, but there are certain things I am not willing to do for it.
Targeted advertising is one of these things that I believe deserves to fully die. I have nothing against general analytics, nor gathering data about trends etc, but stalking every single person on the internet 24/7 is something people are put in jail for if they do it in person.