[falcolas]

> The popular commentary on this subject is pretty detached from the business.

That’s because personalized ads are hostile in the extreme and shouldn’t have been allowed in the first place. It pits millions of dollars of psychological manipulation against our “self control”.

I’d rather the economy burn than continue this unethical practice.

[sjfidsfkds]

My point is that only a fraction of user data collection is done for the purpose of ad targeting. So whether or not ad targeting should be banned for ethical reasons, such a ban is not a replacement for regulations of user data collection like those proposed in the article we are discussing here.