Re:Google will delete new accounts' data by default in 18 mo...
by autoexec on Thursday June 25, 2020 @03:09PM
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advertising is manipulation. It's not even always about a trying to get you to hand over your money, sometimes it's about pushing politics or changing opinions and public perception. You can filter advertising out of your immediate consciousness, but you can't keep it out of your subconsciousness and the ads you can't even remember have an impact on your decisions and your beliefs.
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Re:Google will delete new accounts' data by default in 18 mo...
by stickfigure on Thursday June 25, 2020 @07:54PM
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I'm trying to figure out what you're suggesting here. That we should ban advertising? That untargeted advertising is somehow socially better than targeted advertising?
Practically every commercial interaction (and most social interactions) are "manipulation" of some sort. At the moment we're trying to manipulate each other into adopting the other person's perspective. I don't understand what you find insidious about sales pitches; I'm sure they've been with us almost as long as prostitution.