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I really wish we had a simulated world sandbox to try these ideas out in. I suspect this might lead to the end of most free websites.
TV never targeted commercials directly at "Dave Smith, likes fishing and interracial porn, lives in Chesterfield, searched for new cameras recently", but they still operated.
Did you entirely miss Nielsen and the data they gave to advertisers?
Could we go back to that? Paying people to install spyware box behind their router?