Are you seriously embarrassed to buy tamons for her?
Its not like the 16 year old girl at the register is thinking,"HAHAHA, look at this guy, it must be his time of the month. I better hurry and sell these to him before he bleeds all over the floor and I have to mop it up."
In fact they're probably thinking,"What a nice guy to take care of his wife/girlfriend when she needs him."
So, anyways, back to the topic. I think it would be a useful feature for those products that you truly are interested in, even though I know 99.999% of commercials I will never be interested in.
It would probably be good for the advertisers too, because they might be able to better gauge their target audience, the effectiveness of individual ads, and the overall interest in their products. Lets face it, the majority of companies try to get the most out of the data that is provided to them. A system like this allows them to collect data, but only if you agree to be involved.
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Are you seriously embarrassed to buy tamons for her?
Its not like the 16 year old girl at the register is thinking,"HAHAHA, look at this guy, it must be his time of the month. I better hurry and sell these to him before he bleeds all over the floor and I have to mop it up."
In fact they're probably thinking,"What a nice guy to take care of his wife/girlfriend when she needs him."
So, anyways, back to the topic. I think it would be a useful feature for those products that you truly are interested in, even though I know 99.999% of commercials I will never be interested in.
It would probably be good for the advertisers too, because they might be able to better gauge their target audience, the effectiveness of individual ads, and the overall interest in their products. Lets face it, the majority of companies try to get the most out of the data that is provided to them. A system like this allows them to collect data, but only if you agree to be involved.
I stand corrected....
Noone caught that this is a duplicate? http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/16/180 221&tid=126&tid=172&tid=98/