I don't like tailored marketing.
It's never right and always more offensive for assuming so.
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I don't like tailored marketing.
It's never right and always more offensive for assuming so.
Yeah. This!Quote:
Originally Posted by icarusfall
Edit: I realize this is a worthless post, but I emphatically agree and have nothing else to add.
tailored marketing is what all the "innovated" minds of business want right now. It's what they teach in class, in all the text books, business sites, etc. If you like widgets, widget maker #547832 wants to be able to inform you of his new widget as soon as possible. And he doesn't want people who hate widgets to even know about it.
In the end, I don't know if it is a great idea. Consumerism is part of our culture. It is part of the western identity. I think it will further divide us if people have vastly different consumer experiences. Probably more than half of what we do for leisure is connected to things when spend money on. How much harder is it going to be for you to connect to other people when you know zero about what interest them? Like you can't even hold a conversation with them because you barely know what all that stuff is?
And news is pretty much a product in the US. Will this kind of tailored marketing apply to them? Will we all only be able to watch opinions that match ours? How distorted would that make everyone's political outlook? We already have some of that with people over 50 who don't know how to use technology to educate themselves about stuff. Do we need an entire country of people like that?
We already have entire states like that.
I wasn't implying that we didn't already have some of that. But it has been building. And will continue to build.
This thread got hilarious.
Holy shit...
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Tailored marketing makes sense from a logical stand point. But having something (IE Amazon's new Browser Silk) try and tell me what I want, or where I want to go, is just going to be irritating. Speaking of have any of you paid attention to Silk? The idea of the Browser is to send your browsing data to Amazon's cloud, try and figure out where you're going to go next and suggest it. I don't know if that will actually hold true, at all, but it seems to me that it's more creepy and invasive than my internet browser needs to be.
I should clarify, it's not going automatically take you to the next page or something extreme like that, it's just going to load it before you to go there to speed up the experience. Amazon's cloud is pretty amazing, and I've been using it a little bit here and there for a project (Companies like Netflix are using it some amazing ways) but something reporting that and calculating where you may want to go seems a little bothersome. On the level where amazon could easily store this data (which it is doing because it's supposed to compare your browsing habits to other's to figure it out) at all times (assuming it can connect to EC2 Amazon's Cloud).
I don't like the sound of that. Where I want to go at any given time can range from Strapya and Sanrio to the most hideous depths of the internet.
Hey buttcheeks. That girl you mentioned that broke up with you after reading your shit on here - would it have been a better, happier time if she hadn't seen it, and you'd continued seeing her?