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Unfortunately, it's really the EU regulators at war with companies' abilities to make better products.
by sib 3y ago
Unfortunately, it's really the EU regulators at war with companies' abilities to make better products.
- kranke155 3y agoAdvertising is not a product
- goodpoint 3y agoIf anything it's an antiproduct.
- throwaway5959 3y agogestures broadly at advertising everywhere OK, I’ll bite, then what is it?
- throwaway14356 3y agoproduct information
- justinclift 3y agoInfectious attention cancer?
- Const-me 3y agoInfinite money glitch for big tech, with dramatic externalities pushed to non-consenting general population. These externalities include death of traditional media, extreme levels of political polarization, and climbing suicide rate of teenagers, girls in particular. These things are caused in very large part by the big tech companies maximizing consumption of ads, and efficiency of ads targeting.
- bryan_w 3y ago> death of traditional media Well if adverting is so bad, and old media relied on advertising, Tech was doing the world a favor by starving them out. We should be thanking Google for exposing the corruption that was the old media advertising empire
- krapp 3y agoAs bad as advertising in old media was, at least it wasn't a platform of targeted surveillance and psychological manipulation. An advertisement was just an advertisement, you could pay attention to it or not, and your attention if it was noted at all was only noted in aggregate. Your radio or tv didn't know who you are, know where you live, develop complex behavioral profiles on you, record all of your browsing, shopping and communication data, listen in on your with microphones or watch you with cameras. Google didn't expose the corruption of old media, rather it supplanted it with even deeper and more insidious corruption.
- sellmesoap 3y agoI wouldn't underestimate the psychological manipulation of old media, but you're right there's a whole industry around gathering and leveraging metrics, it still feels primitive but my imagination always wanders into how you can tie data points together. Maybe I'm on the wrong side of the fence.
- hedora 3y agoThe article is about behavioral advertising, which was not feasible with old media technologies. The problem isn’t the ads. The problem is the ad targeting.
- hightrix 3y agoVisual and mental pollution.
- awsation 3y agoThey Live with the glasses on.
- ehnto 3y agoIt is a product, just not for consumers. Other companies buy the product and it is applied onto the consumer, to the consumers distaste. Advertising is itself always balancing on the tradeoff between disgruntling the consumer and the benefit the consumer gets from the media/tool they're actually trying to engage with. It's an implicit bargain for most people, not an explicit one. For me, advertising crossed that line a long time ago. If I had to watch the amount of ads YouTube actually puts in front of you, I wouldn't use it. Thank goodness for ad blockers.
- kranke155 3y agoFair. It’s a business product that’s anti-consumer
- JohnFen 3y agoA service.
- t0bia_s 3y agoIt's proof that advertised product is not good enough to be advertisement by itself.
- otabdeveloper4 3y agoOf course it is. Start your own business and see how far you get without a quality advertising product.
- glitchc 3y agoAccording to what definition? It has clients, it needs to be marketed. Budgets are assigned to deliver it. A good ad campaign gets awards. A commercial is intellectual property. By all attributes, it is a product.
- sib 3y agoI mean, of course it is. The customer is the advertiser.