I may be the result of some evolutionary bottleneck, but wherever there is a camera lens, I assume eye tracking (and sentiment prediction) is at least possible, and at most globally always on.
People who make products and sell services need to advertise. They in turn pay taxes. The many layers of parasitism in the advertising world historically relied on conning these people and taking their money in exchange for an unprovable proposition, namely that if you run this ad we tell you to run, right here, your sales will go up - but we'll never be able to actually tell you for sure by how much, or whether it was a good deal for you. From that perspective, more and better viewership data helps undermine the advertising bullshit machine and close the gap between people who run businesses and the people they're trying to sell their services to.
Italians deploy fearsome SPY MANNEQUINS to win Fashion Wars (2012) https://www.theregister.com/2012/11/22/bionic_mannequins_are...
According to the media at the time, the mannquins quickly disappeared again after the scandal broke. If you are more cynical, you might question that narrative.
I have epilepsy. It's managed, I mean, I'm allowed to drive again. But what about people who don't have it managed (for some no meds will work)? They're just f'd when they walk down the street and Nike NEEDED to switch the screen every 0.2s?
If I can in _any_ way inhibit their ability to grow, I will.
If I need your product, I'll find it. I'm against any and all ads - I know it's unrealistic, but I'll do everything in my power to lower the amount of ads I see or to be a nuisance to them.
Really don't care about morality in this case.
- sound of phone ringing to keep you out of your zone
- loud annoying music with annoying lyrics
- putting cat in advertisement and meowing
Heh, only 30 years behind the US.
Of course our rate of people dying at younger ages over here seems to be a lot higher too.
Do they though?
No one is entitled to better data. It should be on the advertisers to figure out more privacy preserving ways of getting feedback.
Ubiquitous technical surveillance is, in economics parlance, a negative externality.