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Re:Dopamine, Smartphones and You: A battle for your time by civilized on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @04:51PM (#28857568)
Is there a good article detailing how this works? Despite all the "dark side of tech" drama I still see Google as basically OK as a company. Some missteps, yes, but from my perspective, all I really know is they make a lot of great stuff that I use constantly because it's great. It's not obvious to me how they're involved in all of this.
Re:Dopamine, Smartphones and You: A battle for your time by arthurcolle on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @05:38PM (#28858020)
real time bidding, banner ads, ad markets. Anything that comprehensively covers the history of web specific advertising is a good place to start.

Even if ads aren't useful (getting leather belt ads after buying a leather belt... even ads for the same product), the incentive is to continue serving them because the company trying to sell shit is still winning to target all "belt searchers"