Comment on Reddit abandons user privacy - Ars Technica

Ertebolle@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Nobody@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The simplest explanation is generally the right one. Online advertising is a scam. They manipulate the numbers to create the illusion of value. Scammers scamming scammers. Liars and thieves all the way down.

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  • anarchy79@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sounds perfectly capitalist and job creating.

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• dangblingus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The reality is that the internet itself is at a tipping point. Advertising platforms know their service is basically worthless as most people use an adblocker, and most companies have idiotic marketing teams that don’t know how to properly sell their product/service in the first place. Companies are seeing less and less ROI on their marketing budget. Without ads, the internet goes bye-bye, or it turns into a subscription model for every website.

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  • Ertebolle@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or - as many of us hope for - we manage to make the economics of the fediverse work (don't forget to support your instances, people) and the most valuable users move to blissful ad-free places like Lemmy and Mastodon.

    Indeed, throw in open-source AI (thanks, weirdly, to Zuckerberg) and Wikipedia and you can start to see the contours of a post-advertising internet.

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    • CluckN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A problem I see is scalability. For example on Lemmy once an instances hits a high enough user count the costs far outweigh donations and moderation becomes a full time job. It’s ad-free for now but costs are going to keep increasing as the demand for storage and constant moderation increase with the userbase.

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  • demonsword@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Advertising platforms know their service is basically worthless as most people use an adblocker

    most people aren’t tech-savvy enough to do that

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    • themachine@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Anecdotal but I don’t know anyone, including old people who don’t use Adblock. Sure I installed it for half of the ones I know, but the others found it all on its own. The ads are just insanely disruptive so one could see why it would happen naturally.

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• drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As a data programmer I can tell you for a fact that no amount of data can salvage shitty dev time.

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• burningmatches@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Your data isn’t just being sold to advertisers. There are all kinds of companies that are willing to pay big bucks to get near real-time insights consumer behaviour, prices, manufacturing and anything else that can be tracked somehow.

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• mojo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Where are you seeing ads? Do you not have uBlock Origin installed?

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• Mkengine@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why don’t you use applications, plugins and/or DNS settings to never see any ad?

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• jeanofthedead@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You see ads? Bruh…

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  • anarchy79@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    ^ me when I visit friends…

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• SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have spent thousands of dollars trying to cure my toenail fungus in the last three months.

  I guess I’m a toenail fungus whale?

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  • wmassingham@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Have you tried oral terbinafine?

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    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s on my toenails, not my mouth.

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Stop sticking your toes in your mouth. That oughta fix it

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      • forgeddit@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It takes months (I think almost a year) for the toenails to fully regrow, and if its still in your feet you will reinfect your toenails while using toenail specific meds.

        What worked for me was the oral meds, using a separate towel for feet and not using it for nail, and after about a month when your feet are you have to throw away and buy ALL of your shoes new.

        I also replaced all of my socks, but you might be able to wash them in 90°. (Issue is, most water heaters can’t keep up the temperature for long enough so it wasn’t worth the risk for me)

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• lustrum@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Think you got the ads meant for me

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I love how everybody is so busy about mining your behavior for ad tracking data and then like 2/3 of the ads I actually see are utterly irrelevant gut doctor / toenail fungus / 17 Most Embarrassing Topless Celebrity Moments crap.

  Have you had yourself checked out for toenail fungus bro? Might be a thing.

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• Contend6248@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They obviously have major whales not caring as much for interest groups trying to get them in. These ad companies have a much clearer image of people as anyone might expect.

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• starman@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Maybe you are good in protecting your privacy

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