Re:30 minutes with a stranger
by StilesCrisis on Thursday September 04, 2025 @08:18AM
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I accidentally ended up at a job in the ad-serving business for two years and this is so accurate. (Who knew "analytics" really meant "ad conversions"?) If there are entire product lines dedicated to blocking the thing you do, it's very demoralizing.
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Re:30 minutes with a stranger
by steezeburger on Thursday September 04, 2025 @08:29AM
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It's demoralizing because people block you?! That's why you found it demoralizing?! Not for commodifying people's attention?
Re:30 minutes with a stranger
by nextaccountic on Thursday September 04, 2025 @08:46AM
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It's demoralizing because ads are so detrimental to society that blocking them is widespread
No, it's very demoralizing to find that what you are doing for a living (that isn't what you expected to be doing) is so disgusting to other people that there are commercial tools devoted to blocking you.