Google wants you to agree to a program to reduce web tracking by just letting Google have all your browsing data directly - eviltoast

  • bitofhope@awful.systems
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    1 year ago

    Heading towards a very enjoyable and economically sustainable future where the advertising industry is somehow bigger than the goods and services industries that supposedly need its services. But before I get into that, speaking of goods and services, this comment is sponsored by OpeRaid Shadow VPN, the only energy drink/razor blade delivery service for Pro Gamers…

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      For real though, we must have reached Peak Ad at some point, or at least we’re deep into the realm of diminishing returns. This can’t go on forever, right? I mean there’s a finite number of things that need to be advertised and a finite number of people with a finite amount of time and patience to look at ads. How long until it all collapses?

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        @200fifty @bitofhope

        As long as companies can post chum ads that look like news articles but are completely false or imply nasty false things about a celebrity, there will be ads.

        I’m always astounded by how shit internet ads are. Stuff that wouldn’t have passed muster in the Weekly World News.