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Re:US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case by Iulioh on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @04:04PM (#41792053)
Bad things happened because tool, tool bad , very good argument.

Put yourself in the mind of someone making a THING, how do you plan to reach your possible customers for THING?

THING is the best in class, better than the competition but how would you make the world aware of THING existing?

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Re:US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case by trgn on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @04:29PM (#41792281)
how did this happen before advertising?

trade shows, trade magazines, word of mouth, window-dressing in the THING-quarter, ...

why are personalized ads on a website indispensable?

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Re:US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case by hightrix on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @06:36PM (#41793512)
> why are personalized ads on a website indispensable?

They aren't. This is exactly what I mean by modern advertising.

If ads were just contextual based on the content of the page, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

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Re:US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case by kelnos on Thursday October 10, 2024 @01:48AM (#41795923)
> If ads were just contextual based on the content of the page, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

I'd still be blocking them, though.

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Re:US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case by WalterBright on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @05:55PM (#41793112)
Even Pompeii had advertisements.
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Re:US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case by account42 on Thursday October 10, 2024 @05:33AM (#41797144)
The same way that the sumerians had computers, yes.
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Re:US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case by WalterBright on Thursday October 10, 2024 @01:12PM (#41800987)
No, not the same way.
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Re:US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case by Iulioh on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @04:32PM (#41792319)
What do you mean before advertising?

There is no before advertising

Pretty sure we have ads from Mesopotamia

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Re:US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case by jollofricepeas on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @04:55PM (#41792510)
Give or take a few hundred years.

Advertising (4000 BCE)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_advertising

Fact-checking is literally just a Google search away. Irony intended.

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Re:US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case by trgn on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @05:30PM (#41792878)
i know what you're saying, but really now, you know what i mean. some scribbles on a pancard or some fish monger shouting above the crowd, it's not the same as the mass media ads that find you everywhere willingly and unwillingy, 24/7. so before 1900, why not, to make it easy. let's go back there.
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