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ultimately, users are too easy to exploit. they get hit by smart advertisements from a young age. by the time they are adults they could believe anything. Neve
by mahmud 17y ago
ultimately, users are too easy to exploit. they get hit by smart advertisements from a young age. by the time they are adults they could believe anything.
Never gonna happen. The more aggressive advertisers get, the more acute people's ad-blindness becomes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_blindness http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_blindness
There is no better classifier than the human mind; people will automatically start to filter whatever that's pushed at them .. until someone finds a new virgin technique and the cycle repeats again.
We can safely go through commercial fads without involving government or religion; the greedy will risk big money and make or lose big money, the rest of mankind goes on amused and catered to.
- anigbrowl 17y agoThis is true, but it's rather like saying 'why worry about pollution, evolution will find a modus vivendi'. I don't think advertising is evil, but it can be terribly obnoxious. If you have attention deficit disorder then it goes beyond mere annoyance and becomes exhausting. The problem is that this kind of advertising is basically lying to people and exploits their credulity (if they're foolish) or wastes their energy if they filter it effectively. I can't help thinking 'christ, what an asshole' when I read the guy's comment about not being proud of it - it's just more bullshit designed to market his current line of services. If Mr Yu is really not proud of it, I wish he'd put his money where his mouth is and give some of his profits to PBS or creative commons projects or suchlike. Maybe he does, but I'm afraid the whole article reminded me of 'confessions of a burglar'.