[MatthewPhillips]

What you say is completely true. I say they will use that information to serve me ads and content that might be of interest to me. You say they will use it to control me? Explain this further, as I don't understand it.

Are we at a wall where, on my side I see advertising as some times beneficial (and some times not), and on your side you see advertising as a method of control through mind manipulation? Or are you talking about control through some other methods? Please explain more, it's intriguing to me.

[invertd]

If you really think about it that's what advertising is, isn't it? Introducing the right stimulus at the right time at the right place to hopefully make you act when you otherwise wouldn't. But it's not just about advertising....having someone or some entity - with much better analytical capabilities than you yourself - posses all this fine grained knowledge about you and you knowing nothing about them and having no control over their actions (in terms of what they can do with your information) it's just asking for trouble. I think we're at a wall here so let's agree to disagree - at least this way we're both happy...