I left a couple of months ago. Couldn’t be happier.
The writing is on the wall. The leader thinks the Genius-with-hair-transplants is a superstar, despite destroying a globally recognised brand. Inspired by this, Spez is trying to get Reddit ready for an IPO. This means, maximise profits by any means.
Ertebolle@kbin.social 9 months 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.
(I think the reality is that they're mining that data to identify a small number of people susceptible to high-value scams - like getting addicted to an F2P mobile game and spending $1000s on it - and the rest of us just get generic infill)
Nobody@lemmy.world 9 months 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.
anarchy79@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Sounds perfectly capitalist and job creating.
dangblingus@lemmy.world 9 months 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.
Ertebolle@kbin.social 9 months 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.
demonsword@lemmy.world 9 months ago
most people aren’t tech-savvy enough to do that
drmoose@lemmy.world 9 months ago
As a data programmer I can tell you for a fact that no amount of data can salvage shitty dev time.
burningmatches@feddit.uk 9 months 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.
mojo@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Where are you seeing ads? Do you not have uBlock Origin installed?
Mkengine@feddit.de 9 months ago
Why don’t you use applications, plugins and/or DNS settings to never see any ad?
jeanofthedead@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
You see ads? Bruh…
anarchy79@lemmy.world 9 months ago
^ me when I visit friends…
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 9 months 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?
wmassingham@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Have you tried oral terbinafine?
lustrum@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Think you got the ads meant for me
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Have you had yourself checked out for toenail fungus bro? Might be a thing.
Contend6248@feddit.de 9 months 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.
starman@programming.dev 9 months ago
Maybe you are good in protecting your privacy