Should cross-device ad targeting be illegal, or is it just the cost of free content?
Does anyone else find online ads creepier now that they follow you across every device, or have we just accepted it? Last week I searched for a bike helmet on my laptop, and by dinner the same ad was sitting in my Instagram feed and on my TV. I get that tracking makes ads "relevant," but I never agreed to my phone knowing what I looked at on a totally different screen. There's a part of me that thinks this is just the cost of free content, and another part that wonders why I feel uneasy explaining it to my kid. Curious whether people here would actually pay a few dollars a month to make cross-device ad targeting illegal, or if that's overkill.