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Re:We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ad... by roywiggins on Sunday December 10, 2017 @02:05PM (#15892912)
It's not about targeted advertising, it's about the infrastructure that's been built to enable it.
Re:We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ad... by fuzzfactor on Sunday December 10, 2017 @11:53PM (#15895235)
Your opinion is very clearly stated and easy to understand for a fluent English reader.

I agree, it's not very much of a dystopia unless you spend all your time on the web, and in places that are unpleasantly inundated with ads which you are clicking on when you would rather not.

The foundation of manipulative advertising is nothing new, the internet just put it on steroids, moving the balance of benefit faster and more in favor of the advertiser and less for the consumer.

Re:We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ad... by arca_vorago on Sunday December 10, 2017 @01:25PM (#15892684)
If a surveillance engine that listens to everything, everywhere, shares that data with corporations and governments around the globe, keeps systems vulnerable on purpose with backdoors, systems sold with false promises of security by consumer monopolies, all so ad companies can make more money doesn't seem dystopian to you, well I don't know what would.
Re:We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ad... by anigbrowl on Sunday December 10, 2017 @05:29PM (#15893837)
If you can't even put a sentence together then maybe you should compose your thoughts a little longer.