Comment on Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads

• Syrc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I know, and that sucks. But outright banning something that has its benefits has always been detrimental (not to mention, they’d just find sneakier ways to do it and it’d be worse for everyone). We need regulations, a lot of them, not banning entirely.

  Plus who are we kidding, everyone in power is so deep into the advertising/propaganda industry that neither of those options have a decent chance of happening in our lifetime.

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  • Olhonestjim@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Oh I certainly wasn’t proposing a practical transition method away from it. Nor do I think our authorities would willingly give up that gravy train. I’m just saying it’s an offense against freedom, privacy, and informed consent. Frankly, aadvertising threatens the stability of civilization itself, and it must be reigned in to ensure any kind of positive future. But a near total ban would be even better.

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