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Advertising is not micropayment with low friction. That’s like saying war is just the other country buying weapons for free. Advertising is an attempt at makin
by yalogin 5y ago
Advertising is not micropayment with low friction. That’s like saying war is just the other country buying weapons for free.
Advertising is an attempt at making the customer pay for stuff. Attention is free and so you cannot stop or prevent advertisements, they are a form of free speech if you will. However we are talking about the extent you go to profile users and tailor the ads to them. Google personalizes on a per user basis and everything they do is to get that data.
- alecbz 5y agoWhat? > Advertising is an attempt at making the customer pay for stuff. Yeah that's who's supposed to be paying for things? It sounds like you're maybe alluding to a kind of advertising that's unavoidable by just existing in the world, like billboards or bus ads or something, but I don't think that's what we're talking about here. Or I guess a product that you don't know is going to have an ad, you use it, then bam an ad. Sure, in some way that's kind of like taking money without your consent. But once you know a product uses ads, you can just not use it because you don't like the way they charge you for it.