We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads [video]

Re:We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ad... by andrekandre on Sunday April 27, 2025 @12:41PM (#43813188)

  > I guess we could like try to build a sort of system where people get together and vote on what kinds of behaviors society should allow which we should discourage and then when a majority of people agree on that stuff we could like make people stop doing bad stuff by using force after some kind of process to make sure that its fair?

you mean, like some kind of... democracy?

idk, one of our internet vulture-capital magnates was on cnn the other day proclaiming "thats not gonna happen"...

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Re:We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ad... by notpushkin on Sunday April 27, 2025 @01:16PM (#43813480)

> you mean, like some kind of... democracy?

Yeah, I think that was the point.

And yeah, I agree, except governments are slow and, most of the time, corrupt. I really, really wish it worked! (There are counterexamples, I’m sure.)

So while I’m waiting for a GDPR 2.0 that would outlaw the bullshit data collection altogether (and not just put it behind a cookie banner), I’m still going to install an adblocker on every of my friend’s computers – because it works today.

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