It's not similar to cutting out a coupon. It's placing a token with a permanent bluetooth tracker on every person that happens to use the nearby convenience store (firefox) without their knowing and having your staff pick up the tokens of those that walk into the paint shop with bluetooth connections.
The coupon analogy falls down anyway - Coupons are loss-leaders designed to impact and increase future spending trends usually, and typically provide a discount others cannot access, or a discount upon a known previous price point - in other words some type of (possibly spurious) discount.
Nobody leaves without a tracker, the description is vague and the direction of travel for purchasing becomes more Ad-laden. Company conversion and profit rates going up means the consumers are paying more than the otherwise would, either in price (profit) or volume. Can't you see how this can only be worse and is nothing like a coupon?
Advertising is not a net 0, people who see more advertising spend more of their money. This is correlated with quality of life and happiness negatively. Furthermore, if you have libertarian tendencies, advertising makes unknown companies like startups less appealing to consumers due to primal branding psychology, and stops them challenging incumbents. It's a net negative. It's worse for the consumers.
What's the primal reason you are contributing to this thread? To defend someone and their policy - or to avoid some other fear?
