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Re:Epic Tells Customers It Will Stop Google Cloud Integrations by fauigerzigerk on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @03:54AM (#22115815)
We can always wish for things to be less annoying, but the difficult question is how to make it happen without causing more unintended consequences than intended ones.

You have to ask yourself what advertisers would do if you ban those in-your-face super annoying ads. Stop spending money on trying to influence our decisions? I don't think so.

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Re:Epic Tells Customers It Will Stop Google Cloud Integrations by loceng on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @10:20PM (#22124527)
Except other methods will certainly cost more, bringing their cost of products up, and so someone's products who are better and known as such through word of mouth will have a competitive advantage on price.
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Re:Epic Tells Customers It Will Stop Google Cloud Integrations by fauigerzigerk on Thursday January 23, 2020 @05:17AM (#22126313)
I'm not so sure about that. Ad spending has remained roughly the same as a share of GDP for over a century.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-03-03/advertisi...

I think transparency is more important than fighting annoyances.

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