Google 'colluded' with Facebook to bypass Apple privacy

Re:Google 'colluded' with Facebook to bypass Apple privacy by matheusmoreira on Saturday October 23, 2021 @12:03PM (#28969727)

Advertising is lying. How can you trust anything the sellers of products say? They will obviously attempt to emphasize the pros and minimize the cons. There's a massive conflict of interest in advertising that can never be resolved. I want real information from real people who actually use the products, not what the seller paid some ad company to tell me. I usually obtain this information by directly asking the humans in question, they usually don't come to me unsolicited like the ads do.

> the odd time I setup a PC and have to open a gaping browser, it's such an assault on the senses

Oh god I know exactly what you mean. I install uBlock Origin as soon as humanly possible but that short window of time before it's done is such a bad experience.

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Re:Google 'colluded' with Facebook to bypass Apple privacy by _Understated_ on Saturday October 23, 2021 @12:46PM (#28970119)

> Advertising is lying. How can you trust anything the sellers of products say?

I firmly believe this. However, I try to be more objective these days and even if I hate/disagree with something I still like to find some objective facts/data about things to see stuff from other perspectives.

Even if I find research that says everyone on earth likes ads except me, I won't change my personal stance on them.

Edit: forgot to add that by lying, I was referring more to the click rates and returns and whatnot, rather than the claims of the products that are advertised.

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