• taladar@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    Ads have just absolutely fucked most web browsing and that’s sad.

    It is actually much, much worse than that. Ads have pretty much fucked up

    • our privacy since most tracking of your personal life is ad-related (pretty much all besides government surveillance)
    • our health (smoking, alcohol, sugary foods,… are all heavily pushed by advertising)
    • our climate (dito with fossil fuels, cars and other climate killer technologies)
    • our politics (Cambridge Analytica and similar propaganda campaigns as well as closely ad-related propaganda in movies and other types of media)
    • our attention spans and emotional stability (content optimized to keep us watching/clicking/… tends to be super-short and enraging)
    • our freedom of speech (“advertiser friendly” (self-)censorship and demonitization)
    • our news (what gets ad clicks gets reported and in the way to optimize clicks)

    There are probably a few things I forgot but this should give you an idea of the scope of the problem.

    • FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      I 110% agree with you on all points. I have been complaining and telling people about privacy till I am blue in the face, and it just seems like the general public doesn’t care. They just do not care that every second of their life is under surveillance and the data is sold to the highest bidder.