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Comment by vonskippy | Hacker News Reader

How long until Ads start showing up on your thermostat? Or on your smartphone controller app - want to change the temperature, please watch these short commercials and then we'll allow you to change your temperature settings.

"Feeling a bit warm, Sally's Soda is just three blocks away".

"Target is having a 15% off on all winter coats and jackets".

This will NOT end well.

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You don't put ads on sensors or detectors. That's just stupid. Especially when you put in all this effort to convince someone to pay $200 for it.

You use data to compose your internet shadow profile. Then you wait a bit for more MBA kids to crunch the spreadsheets that then figures out where you can be best distracted with an appropriately chosen ad.

And better yet, it's not even like the shadow profiles will ever disappear if Google goes kaput one day. Three other companies will be happy to take their place. Another dozen ad-tech companies after that.

This is where we are now. People being on the internet has ruined the internet. Complete ouroboros.

Not every effing google product has ads in it. E.g. Drive.

Yet

No, some of them just collect your data to serve ads elsewhere

They could easily auction information to interested businesses. e.g., who struggles to keep their house cool through summer and might be receptive to a call, leaflet or door knock from someone selling insulation, window awnings, new cooling systems, etc. Sell the best candidate suburbs and streets to salespeople.

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