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Re:The Internet Made Me Sad Today by rbarooah on Friday February 24, 2012 @04:29AM (#3628571)
The ad consumers experience an externality to the transaction between google and the publisher. The sum of the game may be negative or positive. Which do you think it is, and why?
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Re:The Internet Made Me Sad Today by Drbble on Friday February 24, 2012 @09:56AM (#3629342)
Google's ads are the single easiest-to-block set of ads in the history of mankind, online or meatspace. The simple fact that most folks don't bother to block then show that either they aren't too negative, or people are so dumb and lazy that humanity is a lost cause anyway.
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Re:The Internet Made Me Sad Today by rbarooah on Friday February 24, 2012 @11:58AM (#3629839)
Only if you assume that being 'dumb' or 'lazy' is predominantly innate and not shaped by experience or opportunity.
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