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What do you mean by targeted?

Is targeting knitters by advertising your knitting needles in a knitting magazine a problem in your mind?

That seems a really silly thing to want to ban, to me, and I think it will actually make enjoying advertising-supported content worse, not better.

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On the other hand, I am a programmer and receive a lot of ads about basic programming courses or even something slightly tech related (build your own startup, how to improve your UI/UX skills etc.) that target me for what they think I do, but not for what I am really interested in.

I think good advertising shows people something that they don't already know a lot about to get them interested, knitters probably already have their channels to research about the tools they use.

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