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What regulations would you propose? Ad-tech is doing what advertising does, only better. They've taken the industry to its logical conclusions; a catastrophic s
by FussyZeus 7y ago
What regulations would you propose? Ad-tech is doing what advertising does, only better. They've taken the industry to its logical conclusions; a catastrophic surveillance system deployed to sell you shit.
The problem isn't ad-tech, it's not the surveillance, it's not even the data leaks or viruses; advertising itself is the problem. There's no amount of regulation that is going to make it "good," at best, it will remain a tumor on our free market system until it is excised once and for all. That is, assuming it doesn't kill it outright in its seemingly endless race to the bottom.
- whatshisface 7y agoBanning advertising would be the greatest imaginable victory for big brands and the end of small B2C business. The advertising that has already happened would get culturally locked in forever (would anybody forget Coca Cola?) and it would be illegal for new market entrants to change it.
- FussyZeus 7y agoI mean, this is just the logical conclusion of capitalism. A few monstrous companies dominating industry. It was held back from eating itself some time ago when a bunch of massive corps were broken up, but that doesn't happen anymore. Ironically, big business propaganda about how great big business is has swayed the public so far away from regulating it that there's now nothing standing in the way of capitalists destroying the capitalist system.