I like the whole way online advertising works where my computer spies on me buying a pair of wireless earbuds and for the next six months will spam me for ads for wireless earbuds, after I have already bought some Exactly the worst possible time to do so
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This is the reason why, in the pre-COVID days, they still resorted to the meatspace solution of hiring actual people to stand around on the sidewalk of big cities and hand out physical coupons Because in meatspace you can at least kinda control who gets them
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In cyberspace it is almost impossible to stop ads like Honey from scraping coupon codes and giving them automatically to anyone about to make a purchase Like someone stealing a stack of comedy club coupons and handing it out in front of the venue right before the show
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There is some data/work on this based on glitches and errors that randomly screwed up and the basic conclusion is that firms are throwing away their money
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ADS FOR THE ADS GODS!
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