Comment on Google caught placing big-brand ads on hardcore porn sites, report says

WoodlandAlliance@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s the kind of amateur fuck-up that you wouldn’t expect from the world’s most successful advertising company.

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  • WoodlandAlliance@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because it’s not about whether or not it should be no big deal. It’s about whether or not it is currently a big deal

      I totally agree with you personally, but whoever was in charge of this should know better.

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    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You not caring about something is vastly different than a brand caring about something.

      Brands supposedly pushed Google in to the “adpocalypse” and other types of ad revenue purges. Why? Because supposedly their content was being shown next to uncouth content.

      So, now you tell me. Why should it be OK for Google to do what they constantly take money away from others over less uncouth content?

      It’s about the hypocrisy. If you cannot see any, you’re not looking.

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    • loutr@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Come on, you do know a lot of people take offense at porn for various reasons, right? And most mainstream brands don’t like being associated with offensive stuff…

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      • jtk@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Most mainstream brands don’t like to say they’re beyond willing to be associated with offensive stuff as long as it makes them money and they can pretend they aren’t associated with it. Google knows what they’re doing and they’re more than happy to take the bad press, which won’t effect them in any meaningful way.

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    • guitarsarereal@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For a lot of brands their most valuable customers are middle and upper class people, and their tastes tend to veer prudish/judgmental/conservative on these things. IE with the example of a kitchen appliance manufacturer, we think that’s a very popular/cross-class purchasing category, except for the fact that for tons of us our kitchen appliances are chosen for us by our landlords and among homeowners, the only ones who are regularly going out and swapping out their kitchen appliances are the well-off ones. LG’s best customers, and this is true of most businesses, are their rich customers.

      For the most part, rich and affluent customers’ tastes count for more just because they can consume more, and many of the people in charge of advertising decisions at these companies are themselves middle or upper class, so it’s like a self-reinforcing ideological loop caused by structural economic inequality. The population at large’s opinion about whether shit like this even matters can never enter into the equation because it’s all driven on a per-dollar, not per-capita, basis.

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