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Let's widen the scope to adtech.

• shiroiushi 2y ago
  Adtech is annoying for sure, but it doesn't directly scam people out of their life savings the way scammers try to. Adtech just wants to advertise to you and sell you some crap you don't need (or some stuff you do, that's the entire promise of "targeted advertising": don't advertise PC building parts to someone who isn't building a PC, for instance, but only people who might be). There is a place for advertising in the world, as there has been for literally thousands of years (evidence for advertisements have been found in ancient cultures); the real debate is over the ethics of information-gathering, profile-building ("spying"), the general intrusiveness of modern web ads, etc. Modern adtech I think we can agree really needs to be better regulated, but they're not the same as scammers.