• Property mgmt company changed without our input

  • New company sent an intro email

  • This came a few days later. The entire email is like this with 11 ads in it.

  • Get in the fucking sea

    • danAEnglish
      31·
      10 months ago

      Speaking of carefully curated junk mail, I feel like I’m the only person that actually uses both Valpak coupons and the coupons on the back of supermarket receipts. There’s good coupons for local businesses in there!

      • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        To be fair, it is actually a valuable economic service to predict which ads will be most relevant to which customers. Assuming a rational consumer that is. An irrational consumer can be mis-served by being shown ads for things he doesn’t need, but a rational one only benefits from some third party making effort to locate ads they’ll likely respond to.

        Advertisement is just networking for market information. It’s a problem when people get badly influenced, but that’s a corrupted side path. The default path is a person being connected with useful information that increases the expected net present value of their money. It changes the decision tree, and the new tree resolves to a higher expected value.

        Assuming the decider’s ability to make optimal decisions on any given tree, of course.