Post B8rQYsStFVCL8vNEB6 by elricofmelnibone@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #B8rPoKqVuZHfYSELK4 by fribbledom@mastodon.social
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       Every technological breakthrough of the last 30 years eventually reached its final form:More targeted ads.
       
 (DIR) Post #B8rQYsStFVCL8vNEB6 by elricofmelnibone@mastodon.social
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       @fribbledom Bonus points for the ads being entirely irrelevant regardless of how much personal data is ingested.
       
 (DIR) Post #B8rQksFprEpLxszJ7g by bremner@mathstodon.xyz
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       @fribbledom On the plus side, there is also mass murder.
       
 (DIR) Post #B8s519bn6EQAaUZiAS by trainguyrom@techhub.social
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       @fribbledom given the sheer size and scope of the surveillance advertising economy I seriously have to wonder what the world would look like if it were legislatively banned and advertisers would have to revert to just guessing demographics to pair ads with content, what would the downstream ramifications be? Would algorithmic social media suffer at all? Would the quality of ads improve or stay the same? What happens to the mobile gaming scene in such a scenario? Would the cost of some devices go up steeply or remain relatively the same? How would it impact different media types given they're no longer competing for algorithmic ads? How would automated ad buying/selling change? I have so many questions that I may simply never know the answers to!