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"Digital advertising is a scam from top to bottom. In fact, it’s several scams stacked on top of each other, wearing a trenchcoat, and some of the foundations of fibs are so effective that otherwise reasonable people entirely buy into them."

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I thought it obvious its a scam. The whole online ad market system is a least-effort per dollar system, automated and with everyone deflecting responsibility for what content they force on users. And the whole "internet today wouldn't work without ads, so we have to accept it" propaganda. It isn't designed with honesty in mind. Or user safety.

Im not against advertising. Im just against these mass-advertising systems. Worst thing that has happened to the web.

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