[HN Gopher] Apple's App Tracking crackdown estimated to cost Fac...
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       Apple's App Tracking crackdown estimated to cost Facebook another
       $13B
        
       Author : favourable
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2022-04-15 19:19 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | khaledh wrote:
       | Good.
        
       | tikimcfee wrote:
       | > First, we may be moving in to a recession.
       | 
       | Ah, yes. A perfect opportunity to continue spending an incredible
       | sum of money advertising and tracking individuals and their
       | habits in ways they don't want in an effort to increase your
       | overall revenue stream amounts.
       | 
       | How. Just please, someone explain to me how we move passed this
       | part of human/technology interactions. I hate, with every part of
       | my being, this world where - somehow - this _entire discussion_
       | about ad tracking is normalized. That "the ad industry" is
       | normalized.
       | 
       | When do we get to live in a world where we can stop advertising
       | things? Why can't we just focus our attentions, talents, and
       | capabilities on building things that let people find things
       | _they_ decide they want? Ya know. Like searching for things...
       | quite a concept.
       | 
       | The worst part is this entire website is designed to show people
       | the latest in High Investing, Fast Track technology companies,
       | people sharing their success stories about increasing revenues
       | and streams by X dollars because of hip new tool Z that grabs
       | attention in new horrifying ways..
       | 
       | Just... ew. I used to love technology and science a lot. Working
       | for a decade in this industry and seeing article after article
       | about how X is going to lose Y billions and realizing nothing
       | about the cause or effect of those relationships are things I
       | could ever hope to control in my life has destroyed my will to
       | just be here.
       | 
       | /rant or something.
        
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