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[–] [email protected] 64 points 4 months ago (3 children)

They’re working on a way to project ads onto your closed eyelids and count that as engagement. It’s technically eyeballs. Maybe the brand makes it into your dreams.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

ad paused please, resume watching -- please, resume watching -- ...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Fifteen Million Merits, IIRC?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

LIGHTSPEED BRIEFS!

[–] gravitas_deficiency 2 points 4 months ago

Like a wish.com version of 3 Body Problem

[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 months ago (1 children)

fedora (Sped Up)

Looks like someone discovered dnf5

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

dnf5 my beloved

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

If a scientist group figured out that overexposition to ads decreases the efficiency (zoning out) you think the market would deflate?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

ad agencies would start sell their ads as "non-tiring" or whether bullshit marketing term they come up with and nothing else would change.
Moneymen will gladly burn the entire planet down into slag if they though it could get them one more penny every month

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

market researchers have figured this out several decades ago

and no the market hasn’t deflated so there’s your answer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Meaning current ad market in IT is a bubble? Possibly driven by dominant Google?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

i don’t think bubbles last 40+ years, i wouldn’t hold out for a change anytime soon :(

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's a prisoner dilemma situation. It doesn't matter how effective the ads are on an absolute scale, but a relative one. The aim is to get more facetime than your competition. Unfortunately, any company that opts out gets flattened.

Incidentally, this is why tobacco companies loved the ad ban (at least in the UK). It had long reached the point where they couldn't encourage many people to smoke. They were advertising to cancel out the poaching of customers by other brands.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

So the only way out would be legal pressure? Now how to get there?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just need to find a more intrusive way, and keep innovating ahead of the competition

[–] CowsLookLikeMaps 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Microsoft controls the volume on their devices, they have the chance to do some baller shit

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

No, not at all. Sure the rich want to be richer, but hurting the poor is a goal in and of itself in our world.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So there's this company called flock safety. They provide license plate cameras for the majority of police departments in the US. They're talking about providing another service in order to do traffic analysis. It won't be too long until they start selling data to advertising companies. You would say, so what they can't know who I am based on a licence plate. Guess what? If you go to a gas station they could take a picture of your license plate and corelate it with your credit card in order to find your name. Imagine driving down the road and having targeted ads on a billboard.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

we need to grab firetrucks and a whole lot of paint and just go to town i swear

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What should I add in this one?:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

i appreciate your effort and not just adding the entire Grimes album

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Nayeon 💖

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

because of the bitlocker encryption shit ,ive6been pushed over the edge, and am about to Begin installing mint, when i get a usb stick

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

if you have any questions id be glad to answer them!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (5 children)
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[–] NGC2346 6 points 4 months ago

Sir, would you like some content with your ads ? A bit of water maybe?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

>no GUIX, Parabola or Gentoo on a DRMed SaaSS platform
fitting

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

{title} could be the chorus of a song!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Advertising should be illegal. A good case can be made for this. A short documentary: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=McsqJnRF_XQ

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

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Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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