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How do you think Apple can "do advertising" right? Advertising by its very nature is abusive to users: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_theft https://en

• avalys 4y ago
  The fact that someone has made this claim and given a name to the concept doesn't make it valid.
• mgh2 4y ago
  The article doesn't make it clear whether this will be applied to the App Store only. If this is the case, apps are not a life-necessity in the information era - unlike information (search), shopping (e-commerce), or communication (social media). They do not intrude our everyday living unless we intentionally look for it. Every other kind of advertising does so and thus are open to abuse.
  • howinteresting 4y ago
    Banking apps (for example) are absolutely a necessity. This is kind of a silly distinction to draw. My take is that either all advertising is bad or none is. That's why I use Linux, which has fewer ads (zero) than any other OS.
    • mgh2 4y ago
      You can go to your local bank or use the desktop app instead. How do you deter off bad/unethical advertising if everyone is subjective to it anyways? Like almost any tool, you have both bad and good actors. The how matters https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20end%20justifies%20the%20means#:~:text=%E2%80%94used%20to%20say%20that%20a,to%20get%20their%20candidate%20elected https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20end%20justi....
• amelius 4y ago
  Interesting. If something as abstract as "intellectual property" can be a thing, then surely so can "attention theft".