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[–] Nobody 64 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They’re working on a way to project ads onto your closed eyelids and count that as engagement. It’s technically eyeballs. Maybe the brand makes it into your dreams.

[–] middlemanSI 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ad paused please, resume watching -- please, resume watching -- ...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Fifteen Million Merits, IIRC?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

LIGHTSPEED BRIEFS!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Like a wish.com version of 3 Body Problem

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

fedora (Sped Up)

Looks like someone discovered dnf5

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

dnf5 my beloved

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

If a scientist group figured out that overexposition to ads decreases the efficiency (zoning out) you think the market would deflate?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

ad agencies would start sell their ads as "non-tiring" or whether bullshit marketing term they come up with and nothing else would change.
Moneymen will gladly burn the entire planet down into slag if they though it could get them one more penny every month

[–] cynar 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's a prisoner dilemma situation. It doesn't matter how effective the ads are on an absolute scale, but a relative one. The aim is to get more facetime than your competition. Unfortunately, any company that opts out gets flattened.

Incidentally, this is why tobacco companies loved the ad ban (at least in the UK). It had long reached the point where they couldn't encourage many people to smoke. They were advertising to cancel out the poaching of customers by other brands.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

So the only way out would be legal pressure? Now how to get there?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

market researchers have figured this out several decades ago

and no the market hasn’t deflated so there’s your answer

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

Meaning current ad market in IT is a bubble? Possibly driven by dominant Google?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

i don’t think bubbles last 40+ years, i wouldn’t hold out for a change anytime soon :(

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just need to find a more intrusive way, and keep innovating ahead of the competition

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

No, not at all. Sure the rich want to be richer, but hurting the poor is a goal in and of itself in our world.

[–] PriorityMotif 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So there's this company called flock safety. They provide license plate cameras for the majority of police departments in the US. They're talking about providing another service in order to do traffic analysis. It won't be too long until they start selling data to advertising companies. You would say, so what they can't know who I am based on a licence plate. Guess what? If you go to a gas station they could take a picture of your license plate and corelate it with your credit card in order to find your name. Imagine driving down the road and having targeted ads on a billboard.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

we need to grab firetrucks and a whole lot of paint and just go to town i swear

[–] TheBat 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What should I add in this one?:

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Nayeon 💖

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

because of the bitlocker encryption shit ,ive6been pushed over the edge, and am about to Begin installing mint, when i get a usb stick

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

if you have any questions id be glad to answer them!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

does running a windows vm give me back Roblox support?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Not sure, an easier way to do it is by running the mobile version of robloc with waydroid

Edit: I recommend that over s vm

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

>no GUIX, Parabola or Gentoo on a DRMed SaaSS platform
fitting

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Sir, would you like some content with your ads ? A bit of water maybe?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago
[–] clemdemort 3 points 1 month ago

{title} could be the chorus of a song!

[–] heisenbug4242 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Advertising should be illegal. A good case can be made for this. A short documentary: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=McsqJnRF_XQ

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[–] fukurthumz420 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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