In conclusion, we must be aware, understand the advertisement traps and then do something about it. In a New York Times article by Brian X. Chen and Natasha Singer, they summarize the whole concept of online marketers. Advertisements are finding new ways to trick us into looking and then becoming engaged in their products. They are using high quality software to track you; by attaching cookies onto our devices. This is the “Global Commercial Surveillance” and the “Holy Grail” for marketing companies. As horrible as this sound, there are ways to protect ourselves from this invasion of privacy. There are different downloadable applications, some free and some not. These apps provide us with the ability to block at least some of the annoyances.
