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Good lord. It's nonsensical to equate being shown an ad (even in this third party tracking day and age) with victimhood. Histrionics aren't the answer.
by chucksmash 5y ago
Good lord.
It's nonsensical to equate being shown an ad (even in this third party tracking day and age) with victimhood.
Histrionics aren't the answer.
- AtlasBarfed 5y agoI'm saying accusing consumers of complaining about being "shown" ads as cheap and unreasonable is blaming the victim. It's not "showing" an ad. It's a popup ad, with a tracking cookie, with a stored identity and list of urls tracked over years, tied and shared to a dozen databases, probably shared with governments (willingly or otherwise). I get a huge percentage of people on HN work for FAANG and are a part of this meat grinder, so go ahead and downvote. But blaming a consumer for not wanting to be tracked and characterizing it as them being cheap is shifting blame to the consumer. Which is victim blaming.