Re:John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS ...
by zaphirplane on Saturday August 30, 2025 @07:28AM
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Advertising has existed and powered tv and radio before the internet. That’s great / grandfather territory for some
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Re:John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS ...
by esperent on Saturday August 30, 2025 @07:43AM
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The issue isn't advertising, it's targeted advertising which is a very different and far more problematic beast than the advertising of your grandparent's time.
In the interest of not getting bogged down in semantics, let's just always assume that when people say "advertising" in this era, they mean "targeted advertising". Then we can avoid yet another tired attempt at excusing Meta's behavior.
Re:John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS ...
by zaphirplane on Saturday August 30, 2025 @10:31AM
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people should use the correct words
Re:John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS ...
by esperent on Saturday August 30, 2025 @11:01AM
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They are. The meaning of words changes over time, and with context. When talking about advertising on the internet, it's all targeted advertising (except some tiny unimportant fraction). There's no need to type "targeted" every time, it's redundant.
Re:John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS ...
by zaphirplane on Sunday August 31, 2025 @05:58AM
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I don’t know why it’s so important to you to conflate the 2 and have privacy invading advertising synonyms with any form of advertising.
I don’t think we have crossed the threshold to make them synonymous, feel free to provide data to back that claim globally not in some hip Silicon Valley I don’t own a tv market. My quick search shows targeted isn’t there