• Tiger666@lemmy.caEnglish
      1 hour

      It is a(and one of the many we suffer from) symptoms of capitalism.

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4 hours

      Online advertising is a cancer I would say. When I get an ad mailer I’ll look through pretty much the whole thing, because it’s most likely local businesses and I know just looking won’t come back to bite me in any way.

    • dan1101@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9 hours

      OTOH, serving content is not free and something needs to pay the hosting/publishing bills.

      The problem IMO is invasive ad serving tech and deceptive ads, which are often both uncurated and deceptive.

      • tyler@programming.devEnglish
        5 hours

        Sure, serving content isn’t free. Maybe we don’t need to serve so much damn content then.

  • Voytrekk@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    10 hours

    They are so close to understanding a solution, but they failed to choose the correct one.

    The real issue is that it is legal for these companies to stalk us then sell that data freely. Limit data collection for all citizens and heavily punish companies who continue to track.

    • mPony@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10 hours

      None of them have the guts to put CEOs behind bars.

      • Bluefruit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 hours

        We dont even need them behind bars, give them fines that actually hurt. Talking several billions of dollars.

        They likely wouldn’t do that either though but ffs I’d love it if they did something

  • melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish
    9 hours

    I can’t even pause my TV to read something without an ad appearing a second later.

    • tidderuuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6 hours

      I just bought a TV from a local B2B that does video displays/video walls. They had an extra 96 inch Planar, I paid a bit for them to haul it over but now I have a dumb TV with no bloatware installed on it.

      Apparently they have leftover stock from big projects on occasion and are happy to sell them when that happens.

  • iknewitwhenisawit@fedinsfw.appEnglish
    13 hours

    Now that the US has declared itself a foreign adversary for every other country on the planet, can we start banning online ads, at least from US companies?

  • Antaeus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12 hours

    They have condoned it for years. Pfff… double standards in surplus.