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Apologies if I made it personal, or misread comments as advocating dumping advertising altogether, sounds like we generally agree - I personally suspect Google,
by QuadrupleA 7y ago
Apologies if I made it personal, or misread comments as advocating dumping advertising altogether, sounds like we generally agree - I personally suspect Google, Facebook etc. would do fine without the privacy-invading targeting stuff - they still have hugely popular near-monopolies on which to display ads of whatever kind - Google search, Facebook pages, Twitter feeds etc.
Curious to look into the true effectiveness of this personalized stuff too, even my mom seems creeped out by it. Fingers crossed there's enough backlash and adblock-boycotting that they drop it.
- ocdtrekkie 7y agoI actually used to strongly crusade against ad blockers. I think advertising is an important avenue for funding free content online. Between privacy violations and the amount of malware and scams distributed via large ad platforms, I've leaned towards ad blocking now, but I'm not fundamentally against seeing ads with my content. This was a recent study on the effectiveness of personalized ads: https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-research-shows-personalized-ads-are-just-barely-more-efficient-than-dumb-ads/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-research-shows-personalize... (direct link is: https://weis2019.econinfosec.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2019/05/WEIS_2019_paper_38.pdf https://weis2019.econinfosec.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/... )