> adnauseam does not do this. It only adds to your personal information. It doesn't hide anything.
It does hide it. It hides it between a bunch of garbage data. That’s the point.
If the CIA wants to assassinate me, a browser extension isn’t going to help. But if I start seeing ads for adult diapers while I’m browsing the internet, I’m going to laugh and feel good about knowing they wasted a few cents.
> Accurate or not, that data will increasingly impact your life in very real ways. The more data they have, the worse it will be for you.
Sorry, but that’s ridiculous. It sounds like FUD a spam blog operator would say lol.
> this isn't actually true, because advertisers don't care. That's why the world is still and increasingly filled with ads that aren't laser focused on you as an individual. We have more and more ads on network TV, on billboards, on radio etc. None of them were stopped because they sometimes showed an ad to someone who doesn't care about it. Seriously, they don't care. You clicked, that's good enough for them. Sales aren't even always the goal. Being seen (or the appearance of being seen) is often all they need.
When something isn’t working, you stop wasting money on it. Ads aren’t going to completely disappear, but if collecting personal data on individuals stops being effective, then marketers will need to turn to other means of targeting. It won’t happen tomorrow, but I did say “long term”