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Advertising doesn't help the advertiser unless it helps you. This is nonsense. History is littered with cases of advertising abuse and misuse. Everything from
by ogre_codes 8y ago
Advertising doesn't help the advertiser unless it helps you.
This is nonsense. History is littered with cases of advertising abuse and misuse. Everything from literal snake oil salesmen to modern day shysters profiting from selling conspiracy theories and anti-tax bullshit is enabled and propagated by advertising.
- mindcrime 8y agoOK, fair enough, I should have specified that I meant outside of the case of obvious fraud (eg, snake-oil). Also, FYI, I'm not the one who down-voted you. In fact, have an upvote to counter-balance that.
- ogre_codes 8y agoI get your point about the potential benefits of targeted advertising, and in an ideal world it's true. Of course in that same ideal world we wouldn't have sleazy non-targeted advertising either. I just see so much abuse of tracking and targeting that the damage far outweighs the benefits.