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HogsTooth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Eggyhead@kbin.run ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I think you could eliminate all tracked advertising across the internet and the losses would be much smaller than Google would have you believe.

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• RustyShackleford@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s the folly of humanity, to believe the problem will always be the next generation’s problem. Selfish desire first, concern second.

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• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  They don’t work? How naive.

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  • HogsTooth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    On a bigger scale, I think it’s all wasted money. Maybe its the autism, but the more I see a company name, any company name, the less I want it in my house.

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The data is very clear… Ads work. They absolutely shouldn’t almost ever, but they do. With the cornucopia of analytics available, companies have long been able to see if their ads work, and if they didn’t, they would’ve stopped long ago. Hell even before the Internet they had ways to prove ads work.

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      • HogsTooth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Then stop beating the “it’s all hopeless” drum. You’re certainly not going to change my mind.

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    • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      if you think it doesn’t work on you, it’s more likely to work on you. if it didn’t work the world would be a much better place, but unfortunately they definitely work.

      but i agree it’s stupid especially as a business model and it shouldn’t exist.

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      • HogsTooth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        You sound like an ad for advertising.

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