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What about ads? "still a good guidance on what value the customer wants" or is it just blatant manipulation to coerce the customer into buying what you want?
by aloisdg 5y ago
What about ads? "still a good guidance on what value the customer wants" or is it just blatant manipulation to coerce the customer into buying what you want?
- native_samples 5y agoThe biggest upgrade to ads in decades was targeted text ads, which aren't manipulative in any way. They barely have enough space to explain what they're advertising, let alone "manipulate" people. And those ads power the world's most successful tech companies because yep, they provide amazing guidance on what the customer wants!
- tuukkah 5y agoIt would be much easier to enforce ethical guidelines for ads and stop the coercion than to enforce software trustworthiness.
- fallingknife 5y agoYes. What the consumer wants is a free product over a better one that costs money. HN is probably one of the only places where that isn't a majority view. "Manipulation" is an excuse by those of us with a minority opinion for why things should be done our way rather than what the majority wants.
- xiphias2 5y agoIn the ads business the ad buyer is the customer, not the user. For people to be able to pay in small amounts, I believe that the lightning network is a great solution in the future, but right now either the user pays by looking at ads, or by monthly subscription, like Netflix.