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I’ve thought and said so before: The ads racket is be a case of the emperor with no clothes, at best. At worst, it’s a front for building “profiles” of everyon
by Razengan 6y ago
I’ve thought and said so before: The ads racket is be a case of the emperor with no clothes, at best.
At worst, it’s a front for building “profiles” of everyone.
I can’t recall the last time I bought anything -because- of an ad.
If anything, ads have sometimes actually put me OFF from buying something!
- pas 6y agoBut someone did. "Brand awareness" is a thing. For example we can probably agree that for completely new companies spending on ads makes sense. Or giving out free samples, etc. Similarly for big companies doing media campaigns to keep the new ones at bay makes some sense. Even if word of mouth is a thing, even if there are organic searches, and even if it seems like a race to the bottom if everyone just tries to outspend each other. It'd be great to make experiments about how to sensible prevent/regulate this ad arms-race. But first better data privacy laws.
- Razengan 6y agoOh look, yet another news about how the advertisement economy fucks up more shit than it benefits: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25624112 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25624112 “URL shorteners set ad tracking cookies”