Spectrum90
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Apparently you don't read tech sites, read a newspaper or magazines or even watch TV...
As a consumer I am bombarded with information on what is available to purchase without ever having to use any adds on my phone.
Those ads are inefficient because there is scarce information and limited mechanisms to select the group that will be exposed to the ad. So, people see a lot of ads that are irrelevant to them. That's bad for everybody, the public, the content provider and the advertiser.
Google has not made things really better for the consumer but has made it better for themselves with the pretext of making things better for you.
Google provide mechanism to select from the public those people that are most likely interested in the advertised product. Google can do this because It knows a lot about you and It knows what your doing. Using this information Google shows you ads that are relevant to you and help you to solve your needs. That's a huge improvement over untargeted ads on TV and newspapers.
As Google knows more about the world and about your interests, activities, emails, etc. It gets better in predicting what you want. At some point the ad is not an annoying waste of time, It is helpful, showing you just what you needed, It becomes a suggestion of an intelligent agent that is constantly helping you to find the products and services that you need to fulfill your aims.
So, ads aren't different to any other kind of information that an intelligent agent like Cortana, or your human assistant, or your family and friends, could help you to deal with.
The thing is you are allowing yourself to be led by your nose to things that they want you to see and make money by doing so.
There is a significant difference in how you do things and how I do things. If I go somewhere I know where I am going prior to leaving, if I need to purchase something I know what I need to purchase. If I am hungry I decide what it is I am hungry for before I go get it.
I think you are overestimating your abilities. In general people is very permeable to ads and opinions. Time is also limited, you can't spend much researching every product. You need ads, they open new opportunities for you.
When ads appear on a website or a mobile app, that's not google interrupting. The developer of the website chose to show ads selecting a portion of the page that make sense to her, Google just provides the ads in that space.
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