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> I’ve found laypeople to be _more_ creeped out by targeted advertising, in particular, than tech people "It is difficult to get a man to understand something
by bigiain 1y ago
> I’ve found laypeople to be _more_ creeped out by targeted advertising, in particular, than tech people
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it" -- Upton Sinclair
Tech people are many orders of magnitude more likely to be getting paid to be "the creeps" by targeting the advertising.
- pydry 1y agoThere's probably going to be stasi-like secret police(s) at some point in the west in which all of the privacy violation infrastructure currently in place and used to sell you stuff will instead be used to dismantle democracy and cement in place an oppressive dictatorship. After that system collapses techbros dismissing privacy as a niche concern will be seen as a dangerous relic of less civilized age.