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I have a friend who was working in web advertising back when it leaked out that Verizon was injecting unique IDs into their users' web browsers. This friend sai
by jes5199 9y ago
I have a friend who was working in web advertising back when it leaked out that Verizon was injecting unique IDs into their users' web browsers. This friend said, "What's the big deal? Everybody already knows about this, and at my company we haven't been able to get it to work for anything anyway!"
... I think it's possible to be too close to be objective. We get used to the "power" and not realize that the people who use these services in a non-expert way would consider those same tools "abuse".
- krageon 9y agoIt's important to consider that when you work in any kind of advertising capacity, you are already part of the problem. Anything you have to say that moderates how big of an issue it is should already be suspect to anyone with even a modicum of critical thinking ability. At that point you could try to ask yourself whether or not what you're doing is truly ethical. Maybe then we'd collectively get somewhere.