[g-b-r]

You could have a service that lets you look for promotional information, only when you want.

And lets you configure it from a completely random choice of ad, to something tailored for what you're really looking for at the moment (as opposed to the surveillance industry trying to read your mind).

If you steal the idea please give me a slice of the revenue xD (although it would be best if it were not for profit, so that there could be a single one)

[mathgeek]

The catch there is I don’t look for this stuff, as it isn’t a priority. I am happier not pursuing what advertisers want to sell me, as my time is limited. I imagine many folks are the same, based on it being a core problem advertising tries to solve for businesses.

[card_zero]

That's kind of interesting. I was thinking independent reviews would become important. But you're saying that you wouldn't want to spend any time at all reading or watching or listening to the output of an entertainment reviewer.

Instead you want exactly what adverts do: to be tracked in an effort to read your mind, and then to mendaciously shove news about events and movies and games in your path, while you're doing other things. Interleaved between songs you were listening to, in a sidebar when you use software, as a two-second video before the video you were going to watch deliberately. You will have to be extra skeptical about the things you hear this way. The whole industry, including the free ad-supported services, is a bucket of the sleaziest crabs, clambering over one another in a competition to win your money's attention by any means, not necessarily by giving you honest information. But that's the way you like it.

Yet you said at the start you despise ads and block them. Huh.