So, I sold Internet ads for a while. (I know, I’m not proud, but I had a family to feed.) We would sell packages of views.

Like, for $100 I could have your ad appear 20,000 times in a month. And for a little more, it would target a specific demographics like families with children, retired folks, or Republican homosexuals with cats. And for a little more, we could target those demographics in specific parts of the country. And for a little more we could target anyone who walked into your competitors location in the past 3 months. (If you took your phone anywhere, we knew it.)

I can’t remember all the other targeting we had, but it got creepy.