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Published 6 years ago by tukka with 1 Comments
by tukka
6 years ago 1

Ban Targeted Advertising

For the first 35 years of my life, like most Americans, I was exposed to lots of advertising. I absorbed billboards and print ads and direct mailers and television commercials and radio jingles. I learned about available products and services, and chose which ones I wanted. Some businesses I patronized survived and others didn’t. The economy mostly proceeded apace.

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  • Gozzin
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    This is the important but. It won't happen though cause $$$$$$$. Anyway,I use Ublork Origin and have third party ad pushers blocked.

    The surveillance economy should die. This manner of advertising doesn’t serve the public and it’s not even clear it serves advertisers. It facilitates monopoly, as those with the biggest data troves receive all the ad dollars. That centralizes the potential for and magnitude of abuse, with Big Data used to discriminate against groups, steer vulnerable people to financial scams, and meddle in U.S. elections.

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