Targeted advertising has become the norm on the internet, and it's hurting us

Re:Targeted advertising has become the norm on the internet,... by apatters on Sunday November 18, 2018 @04:53AM (#18479599)

Not to mention the clickbait/hyperbole in the title. I strongly believe that targeted advertising has negative effects on society, but "breaking the world" screams "we want to grab and monetize your attention by activating your stress response, just like advertisers do."

Do they not see the irony? Vice sucks

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Re:Targeted advertising has become the norm on the internet,... by nathanaldensr on Sunday November 18, 2018 @08:00AM (#18480163)

Yep. We're basically reaching "peak hyperbole" in the English language. All these actors vying for our attention are resorting to more and more extreme wording to get our attention. Soon, there won't be new words to use that are more extreme!

I guess they could say "YOU WILL DIE if you don't read this article" but we already had that with "copy/paste this message or you will be visited by a demon" stuff on AOL decades ago...

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Re:Targeted advertising has become the norm on the internet,... by azinman2 on Sunday November 18, 2018 @01:26PM (#18481748)

I dunno... when elections and public thought can be so severely subverted by small and outside forces, I would argue that it IS breaking the world. We’re just seeing the tip of possibilities now. In 5 years there probably won’t be any commonly agreed source of truth left.. if there’s no common basis for truth then there’s zero possibility of common rule.

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