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Advertising has perverse incentives, which encourage business models that require invading privacy and optimizing "engagement" at the expense of civil discourse
by nwah1 6y ago
Advertising has perverse incentives, which encourage business models that require invading privacy and optimizing "engagement" at the expense of civil discourse and mental health.
When you don't pay for something, you are the product.
We should come up with some sort of alternate system which enables wide participation in non-predatory media platforms.
- frozencell 6y agoA token of authenticity to support creators and platforms. Or crack anonymous advertising.
- nwah1 6y agoTokens are an abstraction layer that can never improve any payment processing system. Anonymous advertising sounds like a way to literally make everything I spoke about worse.