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Re:Facebook users said no to tracking, and now advertisers a... by matheusmoreira on Thursday July 15, 2021 @03:02PM (#27848689)
> I guess you could call this a form of censorship. Content gets suppressed, simply because it doesn't generate enough ad revenue.

Absolutely. I've seen entire websites completely reinvent themselves because someone complained to Google about some "offensive" page and got their ads pulled. Stuff I used to like got deleted because of advertisers.

If this "sanitized advertiser friendly web" is the future, I'd rather not have a web at all.

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Re:Facebook users said no to tracking, and now advertisers a... by zionic on Thursday July 15, 2021 @03:17PM (#27848879)
Honestly one of the few things worse than advertisers are the engineers who work to enable them.

Some things are worth more than money.

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Re:Facebook users said no to tracking, and now advertisers a... by long_time_gone on Thursday July 15, 2021 @04:04PM (#27849437)
This would include most Facebook and Google engineers, no?
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Re:Facebook users said no to tracking, and now advertisers a... by matheusmoreira on Thursday July 15, 2021 @03:29PM (#27849019)
Agreed.
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