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> The age of adtech is closing and the world is better for it. If you read most spending reports by companies, they would disagree. SMBs to large businesses al

by mliker 3y ago

> The age of adtech is closing and the world is better for it. If you read most spending reports by companies, they would disagree. SMBs to large businesses all use advertising to increase the reach of their legitimate products. Your local barbershop likely runs Google ads to reach new customers so that he can run his business. Furthermore, adtech lead to an infusion of capital into the internet, which led to many wonderful things for society. It's easy to paint adtech in a bad light when you only consider the worst things about it, which are being addressed.

nr2x 3y ago
“Being addressed”…yes, by a raft of laws around the world that are making it flat out illegal.
smashed 3y ago
> adtech lead to an infusion of capital into the internet, which led to many wonderful things for society. Source? Instant global communication is valuable enough by itself to attract massive investments and interest. I highly doubt technological advancements from adtech was in any way shape or form required for that.
- mliker 3y ago
  > Instant global communication is valuable enough by itself to attract massive investments and interest. If that's the case, with the advent of email in the early 1990s, why didn't the internet completely take off? It took another 15 to 20 years and only when Google and Facebook came into the picture, did we get open source technologies that spread throughout the world and is used daily.
- mliker 3y ago
  @smashed, would also like to see your source here too.
craigbarry 3y ago
“My local…” is less than a mile from home. Why does it need to connect with me via Facebook? > Furthermore, adtech lead to an infusion of capital into the internet… Fiat economic capital gave ostensibly free people agency; how generous. The philosophy we mutter as if it gives rise to human need and doing. Lol You should spend less time memorizing spoken gibberish that is used as a restraint on human agency. “If grandpa can’t grift on it, no seed round for you!” How “free.” American culture is nothing but 24/7 propaganda to remind us to cling to the recent past. No rich people are paying my way. Why are we insulating them from growing their own potatoes? What sort of stupid is this?

by mliker 3y ago

nr2x 3y ago

“Being addressed”…yes, by a raft of laws around the world that are making it flat out illegal.

smashed 3y ago

> adtech lead to an infusion of capital into the internet, which led to many wonderful things for society. Source? Instant global communication is valuable enough by itself to attract massive investments and interest. I highly doubt technological advancements from adtech was in any way shape or form required for that.

mliker 3y ago
> Instant global communication is valuable enough by itself to attract massive investments and interest. If that's the case, with the advent of email in the early 1990s, why didn't the internet completely take off? It took another 15 to 20 years and only when Google and Facebook came into the picture, did we get open source technologies that spread throughout the world and is used daily.
mliker 3y ago
@smashed, would also like to see your source here too.

craigbarry 3y ago

“My local…” is less than a mile from home. Why does it need to connect with me via Facebook? > Furthermore, adtech lead to an infusion of capital into the internet… Fiat economic capital gave ostensibly free people agency; how generous. The philosophy we mutter as if it gives rise to human need and doing. Lol You should spend less time memorizing spoken gibberish that is used as a restraint on human agency. “If grandpa can’t grift on it, no seed round for you!” How “free.” American culture is nothing but 24/7 propaganda to remind us to cling to the recent past. No rich people are paying my way. Why are we insulating them from growing their own potatoes? What sort of stupid is this?