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Ben Lovy

If it adds enough value to my life, I will pay for it.

If only this were true for everyone else as well, perhaps it'd be more viable. Seems the unfortunate truth is that advertising tends to work, despite our cognizance.

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Mihail Malo

Doesn't this suggest we end up "paying" more than we'd agree to, when viewing the ads?

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Ben Lovy

I think the idea is that advertisement as a concept becomes less important.

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Kasey Speakman • Edited

Yes, I seem to be a minority there. I have never bought anything through an ad that I can recall. The only interesting thing that ads have done for me (once in a blue moon) is announcing a new product that I happened not to hear about.

Otherwise, if a company wants me to buy something, they just have to make a solid quality product. And it will bubble up to the top when I am looking/researching for that kind of product/service.

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Ben Lovy

That's just it, though - I feel I could make the same statement. I think I subconsciously make product decisions based on just living in an ad-saturated world, even if I'm not actively making that connection in the moment, which is part of why encroaching on the terminal sounds so odious to me. It's subtle, which makes it nefarious.

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Kasey Speakman • Edited

I agree. And I take active steps to block ads in my entertainment (including paying for no ads), web browsing, and app choices. They don't yet have spam-filtering sunglasses for physical ads, though.

Edit: But yeah it just seems wrong to have ads at the level of the terminal. I'm still aggravated with Microsoft for gathering telemetry at that level.

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Ben Lovy

Do I smell a unicorn?!

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Kasey Speakman • Edited

And it's kindof a vicious cycle when you are intending to influence or trick someone. Ad tech is pioneering the way for how mass surveillance/profiling/phishing should work.