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Re:How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by dredmorbius on Friday May 03, 2019 @06:31AM (#19817091)
Weapons of mass distraction:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=weapons+of+mas...

(The pre-1980 instances appear to be OCR error artefacts.)

The etymology of 'advertise" is "advert" -- to distract the gaze, attention, or focus.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/advertise

https://www.etymonline.com/word/advert

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Re:How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by c0vfefe on Friday May 03, 2019 @07:45AM (#19817494)
Thus advertisers are our adversaries!
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