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Good, but i 'd like to see someone going after the root perpetrators of this racket, the advertisers themselves. That industry is surprisingly immune from scrut
by jdrc 5y ago
Good, but i 'd like to see someone going after the root perpetrators of this racket, the advertisers themselves. That industry is surprisingly immune from scrutiny despite the fact that they 've wholesale sold their soul to google which is now both the buyer and seller of billions of advertiser money. They re just enabling the monopoly
- phicoh 5y agoAdvertisers need content to advertise on. The GDPR basically forces content providers to get rid of tracking. That will require Google to provide an ad platform without tracking. And then the fun is over for the advertisers. Of course with underfunded government privacy enforcement bodies, that process takes a long time. And then there is Ireland.
- jdrc 5y agoNo, advertisers want attention. And they are lazy, they are not going to look for content that fits their product. Google tells them "i have X users interested in your product" and that's what they buy. What's going to happen is they will move all their ad inventory into google search advertising.
- phicoh 5y agoGoogle will still tell them 'I have X users interested in your product'. It is just that Google will compute that from the contents of the wedsite instead of from tracking users. It would be amazing if there would be no ads outside google search. But that will not happen. That is a void that will be filled very quickly.
- jdrc 5y ago> no ads outside google search There will be no content then, so the inside of google will be equally empty
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