Post by vinico on May 11, 2018 14:50:18 GMT
We got our privacy taken away because of targeted ads, because of how companies who track you allegedly know you well enough to suggest things you actually want as opposed to showing you an ad you'd rather avoid.
This has been going on the past ten years, an incredible amount of money has changed hands, whole empires and life styles grew around this idea, and what do we have now? I buy a phone and for the next month I'm going to be seeing phone advertising wherever I go. And my mother and my cousin know what adblock is.
In the past I went to a tech website and I saw advertising for a product they had the reasonable expectation to have vetted because they actually chose. When you make ads dynamic you take this responsibility out of the hands of the content creator and puts into a black box, which doesn't help.
I'm thinking about this because Firefox recently announced that they're going to do ads in-browser (which luckily you can opt-out of), and I was reading this HN thread where a lot of people seem to be arguing the same thing: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17012178
I haven't done any research besides going through a couple of those comments, but I'm guessing this isn't a very exclusive idea. We can probably find a bunch of resources online if we want to build an episode out of that.
This has been going on the past ten years, an incredible amount of money has changed hands, whole empires and life styles grew around this idea, and what do we have now? I buy a phone and for the next month I'm going to be seeing phone advertising wherever I go. And my mother and my cousin know what adblock is.
In the past I went to a tech website and I saw advertising for a product they had the reasonable expectation to have vetted because they actually chose. When you make ads dynamic you take this responsibility out of the hands of the content creator and puts into a black box, which doesn't help.
I'm thinking about this because Firefox recently announced that they're going to do ads in-browser (which luckily you can opt-out of), and I was reading this HN thread where a lot of people seem to be arguing the same thing: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17012178
I haven't done any research besides going through a couple of those comments, but I'm guessing this isn't a very exclusive idea. We can probably find a bunch of resources online if we want to build an episode out of that.
