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Re:I analyzed 200 e-commerce sites and found 73% of their tr... by Terr_ on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @01:49PM (#45596137)
> It seems like a massive, open secret that nobody wants to talk about because the whole system is propped up by it.

I was never really a punk-rebel kid, but a certain part of me rooted in the optimism of the early-internet kinda wants to see ad-models crash and burn.

Even advertising "working normally" always had a psychic odor of exploitation and deceit. Ex: "You absolutely need this product or else your peers will hate you."

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Re:I analyzed 200 e-commerce sites and found 73% of their tr... by Terr_ on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @09:05PM (#45600377)
P.S.: Imagine a world with "AI" (open-source, user-controlled) which can instantly detect ads on your screen, and pass the bounding-boxes to another program which covers them up.

You could even install them on some digital glasses for a kind of They Live sunglasses situation [0], but please never wear such things while driving...

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqrrh86WDG0

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