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I genuinely think that advertising should be illegal at this point. It's a ridiculous concept.
It is a great example of how an industry can survive with only self-reported effectiveness. I remember a freakonomics episode where it was shown that very infrequently do companies get a positive return on marketing spending. It will be very interesting if that industry ever collapses.
They know. The fact that targeted ads leveraging so-called "big data" are not more effective than standard advertising is now known to the public. We can bet Google knew this years in advance. But they can't abandon their whole business model since that would freak the stock market and investors out. So, they need to squeeze as much as they can before the entire model becomes unworkable and they'll be forced to switch to something else or disappear.
Oh definitely. Its essentially a massive case of 'it's difficult to get someone to understand something when their salary depends on not understanding it.'