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by jkldotio 3908 days ago
The advertising is going to be extremely targeted too. If person is going to the shopping mall to see an optometrist then the stores at the same mall could bid to pitch to them. They would literally be showing their ads to someone who is about to be a short walk away and trump even Amazon on how quickly a product can be in the hands of the consumer: "press purchase now and we'll have it waiting for you at the front desk for pickup". Doing a late evening airport to hotel journey? Ads for takeaway food to be delivered to your room or ads for tours and events in that city. Not on the same level of annoying as audio ads for something I don't want playing while I am trying to read an article. I am sure they will figure out a way to be extremely annoying though; I can easily imagine poorly targeted ones that play automatically and so loud you can't have a conversation in the taxi.