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Re:The correct amount of ads is zero by miki123211 on Saturday December 07, 2024 @05:54AM (#42348884)
> placing banner ads in the middle of textbooks would be a dystopia

The far-less capitalist, far more revered society that is Germany actually did this, far before the age of surveillance capitalism.

Not sure about textbooks speficically, but it was definitely a thing with fiction, to the point of editing foreign books so that the ad would form part of the plot.

See e.g. https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/terry-pratchett-and...

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