They had to actually come up with proper advertising to grab attention. Now, they just hit you with ads all over and track your phone to see it they work.

I also feel like ads today are more common/more types. Yeah there are TV and radio still. Maybe newspaper… but you’ve got phone app ads, which are so invasive and highly trackable. Same with internet ads too. Before, there was limited proof anything worked outside of mailed coupons.

I know this isn’t the privacy group, but wait until the regular people learn about how companies track you and your location without Bluetooth, GPS, or WiFi scanning! They play high frequency tones over the speakers (usually with music going) that act like barcodes so your mic picks it up and sends data while we’re none the wiser. Something like reporting this IMSI, IMEI, or user has arrived at this location at this timestamp. But they’ll be able to look up who owns that device if they don’t know already, because there are HUNDREDS of data brokers managing, trading, selling your data.

Lesson: disable mic and camera access when you’re not talking con the phone!