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An advertising industry worker's take on adblockers (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/microblogmemes
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[–] Hackerman_uwu 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

IMO it’s less about insiders stealing info. I’ve seen leads lists stolen and sold on the open market, etc. What we should really be concerned about is the above board, legal and absolutely promoted evil of advertising. I’ve worked in social Media and gaming(gambling) and let men tell you: the legal things these advertisers do are diabolical. The whiteboard conversations about how to structure a user journey are exploitation and immoral, unethical and downright evil and they are so by design. You’re doing a poor job if you’re not devising ways to skirt the law and use loopholes to manipulate people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Can you say more about those whiteboard conversations? What exactly are they doing that's unethical? I can speculate about dark patterns related to engagement and spend escalation, but I'm curious to hear your more informed perspective.

[–] Hackerman_uwu 1 points 5 months ago

Youre pretty accurate wrt dark patterns but there’s other stuff like user journeys that map out for instance how much and when to deliver a casino coupon to a user based on research into addictive behavioural patterns.

Hypothetically: how does the glycemic index of typical lunch foods impact mood and when in that cycle is an addict most likely to succumb?

Put it like this: if it can be done, it is being done.

I had a promising career in Datascience very early on (2005 - this was before the CUDA framework was released) and I quickly realised that there was very little good that could come of that work under capitalism. I have friends who had aspirations in aerospace who realised that all they would end up building is weapons. Similar deal. I left it behind and I have a comfortable life in good old fashioned data management now. It isn’t sexy but I can sleep at night.