[TazeTSchnitzel]

“Targeted” ads almost never show me anything of interest and insist on compromising my privacy. “Generic” ads are more likely to be interesting to me and don't attack my privacy.

I think these terms are misleading though. Traditional advertising is targeted: at the audience of some particular media which takes advertising. And that kind of advertising is actually very effective, and still is. What do viewers of a technology YouTube channel perhaps have an interest in? Technology! What might readers of a gardening magazine want to buy? Gardening tools!

And traditional advertising also advertises to people things at the time they are most receptive to it: when am I thinking most about buying video games? Perhaps when I'm watching others playing them.

[Mirioron]

Would generic ads really be more interesting for you? Don't forget, the United States is not the only country in the world nor is English the only language. I hope you're ready for ads in Chinese, Russian, German, French etc.

[pdkl95]

> I hope you're ready for ads in Chinese, Russian, German, French etc.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-14.4

      Accept-Language: da, en-gb;q=0.8, en;q=0.7

    would mean: "I prefer Danish, but will accept
    British English and other types of English."

[TazeTSchnitzel]

I don't live in the United States and I speak more than just English :)

But it is strange to imagine I would get ads in a different language to the website I'm reading.