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Re:Apple to delay privacy change threatening Facebook, mobil... by sushid on Thursday September 03, 2020 @03:20PM (#24367705)
It's not exactly like people weren't buying things before the internet. Hell, there's advertising on the walls of Pompeii. If anything, better advertising gets us to buy stupid shit people are actually more interested in than before.

At least we're not buying pet rocks now.

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Re:Apple to delay privacy change threatening Facebook, mobil... by legulere on Thursday September 03, 2020 @03:36PM (#24367881)
Psychology and a normalization of false promises (thus far will make you a real man, this product will make you desired) only started around 1900.

The benign ads can still be seen in China when people write their service and a phone number on the wall, basically the only graffiti you will see there.

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