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Can you spare us with this insufferable type of comment. The web is not explicitly organized to manipulate behavior.

• ClumsyPilot 4y ago
  How does Twitter, Reddit and 90% of the web make money? From Advertising. Why does anyone spend money on Advertising? To manipulate behaviour.
  • gunshai 4y ago
    >Why does anyone spend money on Advertising? To manipulate behavior. ... Or to make people simply aware of your existence Me : You look thirsty, would you like a glass of water. You : It seems like you're manipulating me. The above is the reducto ad absurdum lens you seem to be applying to advertising. Awareness of information is not the same thing as agent coercion. Does the ladder exist you bet. But the proportion of advertising that falls into the former dwarfs the ladder. The self organizing aspect has to do with business models for sustaining infrastructure, it's not emergent fact of the web it self.
  • mahathu 4y ago
    True, those things happen but the person I replied to made it sound like the WWW was designed with that purpose in mind
    • daveguy 4y ago
      Organized, not designed. And it is very much organized to manipulate behavior. It is a self-organizing system driven by advertising revenue. It's not about the protocols, which were designed to exchange information. It's about how we have organized the higher level functions and purpose of the web.
      • ClumsyPilot 4y ago
        Exactly, details of HTTP request are not relevant. What creatir of thw web had in mind 40 years ago is not relevant. The content today and organisations we've built on top are what matters. And they are all manipulation.