Google wants to make you feel like you're on a crowded train to up ad engagement

Re:Google wants to make you feel like you're on a crowded tr... by situational87 on Friday August 16, 2019 @09:54PM (#20721440)

Can we pretty please stop dragging all the smartest people in from psychology, mathematics, civil engineering, the carnival, astrobiology, submarine warfare, neurosurgery, and gene splicing in order to increase advertising engagement stats by another 0.1?

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Re:Google wants to make you feel like you're on a crowded tr... by mc32 on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:19PM (#20721545)

I hope the EU or someone else would address this invasive behavior on the part of ad companies. You know a billboard, a TV ad, text ads, it’s all good. I wanna buy things, I want to know about some things people sell —and people can make a living delivering ads. Fine. But this eternal descent into insidious psychological manipulation to get people to buy things they don’t need which adds to planetary stress by a ‘don’t be evil’ company has got to stop.

I’m a fan of early Google. I don’t know when but they jumped the shark with this nonsense.

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Re:Google wants to make you feel like you're on a crowded tr... by m463 on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:33PM (#20721595)

Is it ok if they drag really bright quants from financial firms?

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