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>The cost? You give up some privacy. Only no one cares about that. Most people don't have anything to hide from advertisers. SSN, PII/PCI, medical history, per

>The cost? You give up some privacy. Only no one cares about that. Most people don't have anything to hide from advertisers. SSN, PII/PCI, medical history, personal secrets, naked photos etc...? Identity theft is at an all time high, and it's only getting easier. >Most of this personalization tech doesn't even work. I've literally never seen an ad so enticing that I've clicked on it. Then why are they among the most successful business models in the world?

smokeAndMirr0rs 8y ago
A. I've literally never seen an ad so enticing that I've clicked on it. Q. Then why are they among the most successful business models in the world? Perception management. It's a big lie that takes the dare to seem so big it obviously must be true. So, think about it another way. Think about how large of an industry pornography is. But, is pornography really a form of "entertainment" and more importantly, is it one that people actually spend disposable income on? No one, and I mean NO ONE, pays for pornography on the internet. People barely pay for music, and they had to be chased to the ends of the earth before that tide hinted at changing. So then, what is the pornography "industry" reeeealllly? The largest, legalized cluster of elite prostitution rings in the world, operating in plain sight. As a corollary, if advertising only moves the revenue needle to the tune of roughly 10% or less of the normal operations for any given business, what must advertising really be? A means to rationalize operating costs as business expenses, when you're trying to cook the books and hide money for tax purposes, and feed into a corrupt system of payola and favors. A way to conceal exorbitant spending, such that it doesn't appear as part of income or profits. A way to burn cash the way you want, before the government knows it exists, and keep it behind the corporate veil, distributed in the business world for as long as possible, so that someone else takes the tax hit instead of you.

smokeAndMirr0rs 8y ago

A. I've literally never seen an ad so enticing that I've clicked on it. Q. Then why are they among the most successful business models in the world? Perception management. It's a big lie that takes the dare to seem so big it obviously must be true. So, think about it another way. Think about how large of an industry pornography is. But, is pornography really a form of "entertainment" and more importantly, is it one that people actually spend disposable income on? No one, and I mean NO ONE, pays for pornography on the internet. People barely pay for music, and they had to be chased to the ends of the earth before that tide hinted at changing. So then, what is the pornography "industry" reeeealllly? The largest, legalized cluster of elite prostitution rings in the world, operating in plain sight. As a corollary, if advertising only moves the revenue needle to the tune of roughly 10% or less of the normal operations for any given business, what must advertising really be? A means to rationalize operating costs as business expenses, when you're trying to cook the books and hide money for tax purposes, and feed into a corrupt system of payola and favors. A way to conceal exorbitant spending, such that it doesn't appear as part of income or profits. A way to burn cash the way you want, before the government knows it exists, and keep it behind the corporate veil, distributed in the business world for as long as possible, so that someone else takes the tax hit instead of you.