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Every time you buy something, you should fill in a unique number, personal to you, on a piece of paper (or if it's on the net, in a text box - you get the idea). Then the product you buy can be added into a central database which tells television companies, internet advertising agencies, etc, what you've
bought, so you don't get adverts all the time for things you already own.
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Bluebottle: What time is it Eccles? |
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Eccles: Err, just a minute. I've got it written down on a piece of paper. A nice man wrote the time down for me this morning. |
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welcome to the halfbakery [shastings] |
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Eek, the ultimate loyalty card
scheme, without the benefit of
getting money back. No thanks, too
many companies have too much
information about me already. |
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useless piece of information: apparently programmes containing sex or violence render the adverts in-between less memorable. |
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- just cos I bought an Apple Mac plus 15 years ago, doesn't mean I wouldn't be responsive to knowing about 'new fangled' computer technology... |
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adverts containing sex or violence might make them more memorable, po? |
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and how much to get a hacker to register you in the central database as having bought everything already? |
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This sort of information about you
already exists. There is a company that
has a huge database that one can
access for detailed information. On a
basic level it exists w/in MRIs. If
someone has the link to the company
I'm talkign about... |
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Although it's not affecting the
advertising a person consumes on the
level you're talking about, personalized
advertising is popping up. TiVo has
some scary plans similar to what your
talking about. Amazon already suggests
products etc. |
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[spocksEyebrow] for a lack of a nicer way to say it, amazon's system is Shiite. They have a list of things I own, which I painstakingly entered in myself in the hopes that they would stop advertising things I owned, but instead, they advertise things that are similar to what I own, including what I told them I owned in the first place! |
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[Shastings] great idea, if it would work. I would definitely have more brand loyalty if my vendors would stop advertising stuff they know I have. |
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