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Re:Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a ... by the_snooze on Monday January 31, 2022 @12:20PM (#30150665)
>The concept of "value" for consumers has been completely twisted and I am not looking forward to seeing where this race to the bottom will end up.

For a lot of consumer tech companies, it's less about providing value to consumers and more about extracting value from them. Between vendor lock-in, privacy violations, and arbitrary one-sided changes in service, it's straight out of an abusive partner's playbook.

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Re:Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a ... by Nextgrid on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @07:43AM (#30161714)
A lot of consumer tech companies' entire business model is "growth and engagement" which is basically arbitrage between what the investors/advertisers will pay and what it costs them to produce this "engagement". Any useful output produced by the system is a mere side-effect and the bare minimum necessary for to get the victims to "engage".
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