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Google wants to make you feel like you're on a crowded train to up ad engagement
- situational87 7y agoCan we pretty please stop dragging all the smartest people in from psychology, mathematics, civil engineering, the carnival, astrobiology, submarine warfare, neurosurgery, and gene splicing in order to increase advertising engagement stats by another 0.1?
- mc32 7y agoI hope the EU or someone else would address this invasive behavior on the part of ad companies. You know a billboard, a TV ad, text ads, it’s all good. I wanna buy things, I want to know about some things people sell —and people can make a living delivering ads. Fine. But this eternal descent into insidious psychological manipulation to get people to buy things they don’t need which adds to planetary stress by a ‘don’t be evil’ company has got to stop. I’m a fan of early Google. I don’t know when but they jumped the shark with this nonsense.
- m463 7y agoIs it ok if they drag really bright quants from financial firms?
- nkrisc 7y agoIf the ad industry was applying this kind of emotional and psychological manipulation in order to, I dunno, coerce people into having more sex with them, most people would agree it's evil. But it's OK to manipulate people in the same way if it's just to make them buy your shit? Bunch of psychopaths.
- perl4ever 7y agoIf this is Veritas, I've been led to believe that epithet is an accurate description of them.
- 9nGQluzmnq3M 7y agoErr, isn't the study about people in actual crowded trains being more receptive to buying stuff?
- FlowNote 7y agoYou'll have to review the rest of the leaked documents to see how algorithmic discrimination methodologies are tied into this. The preceding paragraphs are damning about intent and implication.
- anon1m0us 7y agoAnyone with me on a startup that only indexes the part of the internet Google doesn't touch? No Google Adwords enabled sites No Google Analytics enabled sites No Google CDN referencing sites etc... I don't want anything to do with them anymore at all. Ever. Or anyone who has anything to do with them. Can we take our internet back?
- perl4ever 7y agoI was thinking about this. I'm lazy and not very talented, so is there any decent code existing and open sourced that could be adapted to spider only sites without advertising?
- ErikAugust 7y agoJust crawl, and then disregard sites that have certain scripts present.
- anon1m0us 7y agoYeah, technically, it'd be very easy. I've written countless spiders, crawlers, etc. Basically, only index items where webpage.indexOf('google') < 0
- tylerl 7y agoOh. This is more of that project Veritas BS. Expect every inadvisable piece of analysis or research ever downloaded by a low-level Google sales rep to be presented as a exclusive leak of what the company has been secretly planning.
- jjulius 7y agoThe instant I saw Project Veritas was attached to this I stopped reading. Their entire track record screams, "You can't trust a single thing we say."
- FlowNote 7y agoIf the host of the documents induces psychological stress, here's a document that explains the triggers and stressors you're enduring. https://uploadfiles.io/ky9n997v https://uploadfiles.io/ky9n997v
- t0ughcritic 7y agoCan we all start saying Google Ad search now?
- underyx 7y agoFunny, Google Maps recently started surveying me about how crowded my trains were.