Friday, April 17, 2009

Targeted Marketing Sucks

I've been doing lots of Internet surfing the past few weeks, and most of my searches have involved both pregnancy and birth...since they're inevitably a part of a stillbirth.

Yahoo, apparently, thinks this is an open invitation to bombard me with their advertising.

I don't know which is worse, this "First Reponse" ad:


Or this "March of Dimes" one:


Targeting marketing really, really sucks.

2 comments:

jstrong said...

Seriously, they should have a bereavement opt-out option.

Anonymous said...

Yeah. Don't watch any baby commercials either, I ran across some while I watched tv during my hospital stay and it only made things worse. TiVo is my best friend to this day because I can skip all those horrible commercials.