Yes so everything I do is logged. i could try and get a copy of it, and what am i supossed to do about it? like i said, you want free stuff accept the spying. Don't want to be spied on then boycott them and complain to legislators that even paid services will track you because it would seem it's legal,
I'll tell you why advertising does not work on me: i don't have any money to waste! cool you got a product to sell, great, I don't need it and would rather do something else with what little money i have! Sure i may get the urge but i recognise it, I say to myself your about to get sucked in by that add, do you really need that, will you want it soon after buying it? but apparently you know me better than me because of 3 articles you read that all say the same thing.
You couldn't showcase "the guy who thinks he really is the one exception" better if you tried.

This essentially what half of the people say. "Sure, it works. But not on me!" Unfortunately you still seem to misunderstand how advertising works. It's in the links you never read. Even if you'd have zero expendable outcome the decisions you make about the things you do buy are influenced by ads.
"There is a large gap between way most people think advertising works and the way it actually works. Because people think that advertising uses rational persuasion. Joe sits at home watching TV and drinking beer with his belly hanging over his crotch. An advertisement for a new Harleys Supersuck XX vacuum cleaner appears on screen. He’s told it will pick up every last piece of dirt in his house. “Wow!” he shouts. “I have to go and buy this right now!”. He grabs his wallet and runs straight out the door. Yeah. This rarely happens."
"Ever since advertising became truly popular, consumers have generally maintained that while they can understand how advertising would have an effect on others, it cannot possibly have an effect on them. They are too savvy, and too in-control of their mental faculties to be influenced by such ham-handed messaging."
"As a dastardly creator of advertisements, I’m going to let you all in on a little secret that my friend’s fellow forum poster didn’t believe: advertising works, and if you don’t think it does, you’re my favorite demographic."
I don't pretend to know better than you, but the research underpinning the articles posted does. It's not exactly the result of a single study either. Maybe it's a bit easier to swallow your pride when you realize this applies to all of us. This stuff is very carefully designed to do so.