Why are targeted online ads so commonly considered to be “creepy?” For one, unlike the real world, “It's different online, where I am supposed to see ads because something about my
data suggests that they are relevant to me,” Sara Watson writes in The Atlantic. On a deeper level, “Personalization purports to be uniquely meaningful, yet (based on the generalizing
statistical distributions and normalized curves methods) it alienates us in its mass application,” Watson suggests.
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