In fact, Ads are natural. Ads are the mechanism used by companies to promote their products. Without ads people wouldn't know what their options are. Ads fulfill an importan role in the economy.
The ultimate success for Google would be to know more about you to transform ads into propositions of products or activities that solve your real life problems. Google needs more information and better AI to offer exctatly what you need at the right time, even if you didn't know you needed that.
The replacement of the massive untargeted ads into personalized recomendations that makes you happier would be an amazing benefit for all the people.
No it would not make me happy and is not a benefit to people. It is too invasive and they are sifting the data stream for greed and profit.
That will never sit right with me. It does not build Utopia, only Dystopia.
Again, I clicked on something for very specific - NOT SHOPPING - reasons. Making advertising blend better and become more palatable is not my function in life and not my purpose in being online. Yes I consume, absolutely. Do I need to consume more? Most likely I need to consume less. But it is not for me to be passive about some company interposing themselves on my daily activities with unwanted and unwarranted intrusions in order to increase my consumption.
I get that you like Google and don't mind that they pilfer your data and fill your head with mindless consumerism at every opportunity.
Here's the bottom line. I
DO mind. I do not want them there. I am specifically
NOT inviting them. They have no inherent right to interpose themselves unasked into my data stream.
NONE. If I were warned before clicking that I would be presented with an ad that would block me from seeing the content I asked for, I would not click. Where is my choice? Where is my freedom from unwanted intrusion?
They have truly crossed over to cyber-abuse.
You say, "the ultimate success for Google would be to know more about [me] to transform ads into propositions of products or activities that solve [my] real life problems." And I most specifically don't want Google to know more about me. I do not want them to offer me anything. It is not a kindness.
If you take a woman flowers and she asks you not to do so, do you have the right to bring her different flowers the next day? Was it the type of flowers? Was it the way the flowers were arranged? Do you get to jump out of alleyways at her and ask if she likes chocolate better than flowers? Can you just open her door and walk in to her home and start showing her items of jewelry, asking her which she likes more, which less?
What part of feeling invaded by Google just so they can make money is beneficial to me? What part of I feel they are invading my data do you not understand? How am I not allowed to opt out of a relationship that I deem abusive? Why would you seek to glamorize and romanticize that abuse?