I should have known my comment would only make you more aggressive. Walked into that I guess.

You are right in that a huge amount of ads leverage user data at the expense of the user.

The point I’m trying to make is that not all involved in the advertising technology are exploitive. We do zero ad targeting based on user data. You make a search for specific products, we take the response and shuffle the order a bit based on vendor campaigns. That’s it. Nothing is associated or even collected from the user. It’s all system metrics.

The greatest harm that my team does is hurting optimized relevancy, which is inherit to advertising but also something we work hard to alleviate.

That misused proverbs quote is a nice touch. Shows a lot of self awareness.