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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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