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Re:EU proposing to regulate the use of Bayesian estimation by username90 on Sunday April 25, 2021 @12:00PM (#26933721)
Advertisement doesn't cause psychological harm in this context, otherwise you would get sued for abuse over phone advertisement.
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Re:EU proposing to regulate the use of Bayesian estimation by jcims on Sunday April 25, 2021 @12:34PM (#26934025)
What’s the standard for harm? I think that’s the part that isn’t clear to me. What if an advertisement diminishes my self-esteem to some degree?
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Re:EU proposing to regulate the use of Bayesian estimation by jka on Sunday April 25, 2021 @12:14PM (#26933848)
If we could quantify the amount of time and distraction caused by advertising, on aggregate, it's possible that opinions would change.

A few companies do already have access to plenty of data that they could use to calculate these kind of reports.

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