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A LOT OF ONLINE
display advertising only seems dumb. In truth, it’s
getting smarter—and a bit scarier—by the day.
Advertising technologies like “interest-based advertising”
and “behavioral targeting” that once targeted people based
on rudimentary consumer profiles are rapidly giving way to
a new generation of “smart advertising”—technologies that
enable marketers to create a single Internet banner ad that
every visitor to a website may see, but that will use a mind-
boggling array of data mining capabilities to dynamically
customize itself to fit each viewer’s age, gender, location,
profession, household income, personal interests, online
activities, ...