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Found the online marketing person! And there are plenty of reasons.
by slater 3y ago
Found the online marketing person!
And there are plenty of reasons.
- seydor 3y agoif you re in tech your salary depends on advertising money somewhere along the chain
- someplaceguy 3y ago> if you re in tech your salary depends on advertising money somewhere along the chain You say that like it's a good thing.
- seydor 3y agowithout online media, computers would be in the sector of scientific instruments
- someplaceguy 3y ago> without online media, computers would be in the sector of scientific instruments Computers were already common household items before massive online advertising even existed. So forgive me if I don't find your arguments convincing (and it's not just because of this specific argument).
- JohnFen 3y agoSo your assertion is that there would be no online media in the absence of behavioral advertising? I rather suspect that's incorrect, for two reasons. We had plenty of online media before online advertising existed at all, and there are many ways of doing advertising without it being behavioral.
- seydor 3y agoNot plenty and nowhere near as popular
- bigbillheck 3y agoI have an enjoyable and well-paying job in the sector of scientific instruments.
- slater 3y agoGood thing I'm not in tech, then. Pheeee-ew! edit: but to add some substance: If you (yes you, OP) are in the online advertising sphere, surely you're at the losing end of many battles, not just this lil EU thing? I'm thinking the ever-growing prevalence of adblockers, tracker-blocking, e-mail trackers being blocked etc.? For you it must be like a game of whack-a-mole, except your mallet is increasingly smaller, and the moles' velocity is approaching lightspeed
- dale_glass 3y agoNot mine as far as I know. As a consulting company of course we advertise, but not really to normal people. At least I don't think I've ever seen online ads for services that involve a team of programmers and large sums of money.
- JohnFen 3y agoSure, but not necessarily the terrible sort of advertising being addressed.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoNot all tech jobs depend on user targeted advertising. Only some big-tech ones.
- seydor 3y agothat s not how it works though, tech is a big ecosystem. At least 3 of the trillion-dollar tech companies depend on advertising , which feeds money into the content system. The rest of the ecosystem is in the business of supporting and distributing this content. Advertising is very high in the pecking order of the tech business sector. Without it, the internet would be the equivalent of USSR era Pravda (and we'd probably have a different job)
- MandieD 3y agoSome of us work for big companies that still basically make what they did 50-70 years ago, just faster and better now, with the help of computers and data science.
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago>Without it, the internet would be the equivalent of USSR era Pravda Yes, remember USSR Windows XP from the era when it came without ads? It was so terrible. /s Didn't know I was using USSR internet in the '90s-'00s before the advent of user targeted advertising. In fact most websites and products were way better back then compared to the mess of today. > At least 3 of the trillion-dollar tech companies depend on advertising Boo-hoo, let me play you and them the world's smallest violin.
- mantas 3y agoThere’s a lot of jobs in boring sectors building all sorts of software to run old school businesses. Or helping people do all sorts of tasks. The world does not turn around content (over)consumption.
- everdrive 3y agoI’d happily take a hit if it meant removing behavioral advertising and tracking from the internet. There’s more to life than making money, but this isn’t really something that “people” in advertising usually understand.
- dooglius 3y agoUnless you have unusually good psychological resistance to ads, you're ultimately paying that money back in in one way or another, since advertising is a net profitable business.