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Re:Google and Facebook should be regulated for news content,... by kerng on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @10:44AM (#19144401)
Do make ad publishing more difficult- eg. Maybe large scale targeted individual ads to manipulate people (with targeted precision) should be illegal? Or ads that combine more then 1 selection criteria or whatever- the status quo is not defendable.
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Re:Google and Facebook should be regulated for news content,... by pjc50 on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @11:02AM (#19144598)
Political advertising on the internet in the UK should at least be made to follow the print advertising rules (imprint+cost accounting), and ideally the TV advertising rules (banned except for PPB)
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Re:Google and Facebook should be regulated for news content,... by strictnein on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @11:01AM (#19144587)
All ads are designed to manipulate people. It's literally the purpose of advertising.
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Re:Google and Facebook should be regulated for news content,... by kerng on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @11:31AM (#19144908)
Correct, but not all ads can be customized for individuals at scale - that's the difference and that's the problem.
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Re:Google and Facebook should be regulated for news content,... by strictnein on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @09:28PM (#19149818)
There's been customized mass mailings for a long time. Google and FB weren't the first to collect lots of information about consumers and sell it to advertisers.
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