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A comment on International coalition calls for action against surveillance-based advertising. Parent comment

Re:International coalition calls for action against surveill... by skinkestek on Thursday June 24, 2021 @02:05PM (#27621575)
> Doesn't go far enough: since advertising is virtually all lies, we should prohibit it.

This is obviously wrong.

There exist ads that I have been very happy to see and that has saved me lots of money and/or hassle.

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Re:International coalition calls for action against surveill... by daptaq on Thursday June 24, 2021 @03:45PM (#27622881)
But could it have been communicated more effectivly? Ads have a lot of noise, use tricks and are biased. You can't take them at face value, but require additional effort to extract the relevant and real information.
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