Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface

Re:Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface by BLKNSLVR on Monday March 29, 2021 @09:53PM (#26630543)

Having less exposure to advertising, given that I watch less advertising-interrupted television than ever and have had a pi-hole running for a good couple of years, when I am exposed to advertising I'm reminded of how incredibly bottom-feeding it is.

I've said it before: Advertising is a psychological attack on human weakness.

> I find it hard to separate the fraudsters from the engineers that enable them

Paraphrasing because I can't find the original:

"What does it say of humanity to have so many of the smartest minds in the world working on making advertising more effective"

> this screed was therapeutic

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Re:Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface by bigiain on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @04:05AM (#26632190)

“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.” –Jeff Hammerbacher

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Re:Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface by kieckerjan on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @08:03AM (#26633602)

Some of these best minds are probably reading this right now, and keeping awfully quiet. :-)

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Re:Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface by Firehawke on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @01:12PM (#26637322)

Or hiding in plain sight in posts here.

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Re:Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface by dralley on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @08:59AM (#26634049)

https://youtu.be/xRL2vVAa47I&t=13m20s

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Re:Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface by eschaton on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @03:05AM (#26631895)

Most advertising literally attempts to hack an audience’s brains, which everyone should instantly recognize as being black-hat.

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Re:Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface by sitkack on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @03:17AM (#26631963)

At the same time, we have created super computers that run on expansion cards that are being used for that same black-hat activity. Currently measured in the 10s of teraflops of processing power.

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Re:Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface by Firehawke on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @12:56PM (#26637099)

More and more I'm seeing a general public backlash against advertising. It's been so large and so prevalent that people find it irritating enough to avoid products that are getting heavy pushes. I've found myself having a visceral "stay the hell away from this product" reaction on occasion as well.

My stance on web advertising has always been "go back to static, not in-my-face, non-animated, no audio, no javascript ads and I'll consider turning off my ad blocker."

I'm absolutely not letting my computer get infected through the ad networks, which is a separate issue really.

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