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Re:The $300B Google-Meta advertising duopoly is under attack by amelius on Sunday September 18, 2022 @06:38PM (#32892150)
How is that true if the "best" ads are still paid for by companies who might not sell the best stuff?

Ads just try to drive up sales. This is something we don't need given current energy/climate issues.

There are better ways of bringing supply and demand together. Several decades ago we had yellow pages, and they worked fine. I'm sure in the internet age we can come up with an even better system that doesn't involve user tracking and/or distracting ads.

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Re:The $300B Google-Meta advertising duopoly is under attack by therealdrag0 on Sunday September 18, 2022 @08:21PM (#32892814)
Many people don’t care about optimizing for buying the best of its kind, they are just interested in something interesting/useful. Ads relevant to interests is more efficient than ads not relevant to interests.
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Re:The $300B Google-Meta advertising duopoly is under attack by ripper1138 on Monday September 19, 2022 @03:14AM (#32895262)
Several decades ago we had TV as well. Im not sure yellow pages are better than internet ads.
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