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CubitOom@infosec.pub 4 weeks agoThis means that the ads will not be personalized and that people will receive ads the do not care for.
There are reasons why the advertising industry has adopted personalized ads and surveillance capitalism, because it is profitable and legal. Not because it is ethical or the right thing to do.
leoj@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
I mean most of the ads I get are meaningless to me despite being personalized, I feel like a lot of people say the same thing, but maybe I am in the minority here.
Either way, I don’t think you need to invade peoples privacy to advertise to them, but agree to disagree.
CubitOom@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
You are saying 2 conflicting things, but at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter what you feel, what matters is what actually happens.
And what actually happens is opt-our personalized ads with digital fingerprinting alongside surveillance capitalism.
Here is a book on the topic.
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism : The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
leoj@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
I’m not sure what I said is conflicting, and I feel like your statement is trying to minimize the point I am making, but thats ok, I believe we will never come to agreement here because I firmly disagree with the disruption of privacy for the sake of advertisement.
You can say my feelings are meaningless, but as this gets more invasive people will seek ways to opt out, which I believe is meaningful, although you can say and feel whatever you want my friend :).
Thanks for the book rec, I’ll look it over!
CubitOom@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
I think we are in agreement that privacy is paramount.
Where we differ is that you seem to think it’s possible to have some form of personalized ads and maintain privacy. While I think modern day ads and especially virtual personalized ads are intended to subvert privacy, while simultaneously also creating a lot of profit for some of the most evil companies that exist today like Google, Amazon, and Meta.
This makes ads on the internet simply not ethical at all in my opinion. Which inturn means ads are not an appropriate solution for funding news or any other website.