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> If you are overweight it could show ads of gyms/treatments/diet-food;

I have a feeling that the data would be more likely to be peddled to McDonald's than 24 Hour Fitness.

When will I be able to pay Google and other ad-sources to weight the targeting algorithms toward the virtues I want, not just the virtues and vices others can profit from? When are my ethics going to be allowed a seat at the negotiating table for purchases of my attention?

> When will I be able to pay Google and other ad-sources...

When you have enough money to pay them more than the brands and retailers who are buying their ad services.

What is the going CPM rate for an extremely low CTR user base these days? Between what little I know of that and my browsing rate, seems to me like I could set a purchasing limit of $100/year for bidding on my own eyes, probably win enough to almost never see anything but my own small/short "be a good person" reminder/ad on any of the Google ad networks that do CPM bidding, and still not hit the limit each year.

I think it's more likely that it would be peddled to both but McDonald's has deeper pockets, so the effect would be the same.

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