[HN Gopher] EU to Facebook: 'Drop Dead'. Ringing down the curtai...
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       EU to Facebook: 'Drop Dead'. Ringing down the curtain on the
       consent theater
        
       Author : ColinWright
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2022-12-07 20:44 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | hyperman1 wrote:
       | I actually look forward to the return of decent ads. Up to the
       | '80s, people actually bought magazines for the ads in them. I
       | loved the old Marklin catalogs, the weird devices in electronic
       | magazines, the games in game magazines, the software libraries
       | and debugging tools in dev magazines.
       | 
       | Some of the hacker news posts are basically ads: 'Look what we
       | made, buy it or invest in it.' I don't mind, in fact I find it
       | interesting and inspiring what pops up. Sometimes I actually use
       | it.
       | 
       | But the key here is contextual. This month on youtube, I get the
       | same ad about some political party multiple times an hour. But I
       | am not at all thinking about politics, so they only annoy me. If
       | youtube would just show me an ad based on the content of the clip
       | I am looking at, instead of guessing who I am and being wrong
       | most of the time. We heard a song we liked on a random Youtube
       | music channel and had to hunt down the title and artist to buy
       | it. Just place a 'buy' button on there already.
        
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