Re:American Airlines and The Points Guy are suing each other
by Nextgrid on Thursday January 20, 2022 @03:48PM
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You can effectively kill it or curtail its noxious effects by banning common negative externalities of it.
The GDPR, though having a massive enforcement problem, disallows targeted ads and all the privacy violations typically associated with them.
You could make websites liable for the ads they display, automatically killing the "bottom of the barrel" of advertising such as chumboxes (Outbrain/Taboola/etc) and similar low-quality trash because the cost to review & audit these ads would outweigh any potential profits.
You could revoke Section 230 protection for social media companies that manipulate the reach of content to increase engagement (which is why every social platform switched from a chronological feed to an algorithmic one) as to discourage the practice and prevent them from profiting off intentionally pushing harmful or even illegal content to increase engagement.
The GDPR, though having a massive enforcement problem, disallows targeted ads and all the privacy violations typically associated with them.
You could make websites liable for the ads they display, automatically killing the "bottom of the barrel" of advertising such as chumboxes (Outbrain/Taboola/etc) and similar low-quality trash because the cost to review & audit these ads would outweigh any potential profits.
You could revoke Section 230 protection for social media companies that manipulate the reach of content to increase engagement (which is why every social platform switched from a chronological feed to an algorithmic one) as to discourage the practice and prevent them from profiting off intentionally pushing harmful or even illegal content to increase engagement.