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aluhut | 8 years ago
You've forgotten that those pictures belong to Facebook. So whoever buys them out from the remains of Facebook will do whatever they want with it. They may share it with you. They may not. Maybe they'll use it to train some AI and then discard it altogether. Maybe they'll put your head onto some porn star. Maybe China will buy it. Can you imagine, a Chinese man coming to your grandparents house and taking away their photo album? What would your grandpa do?
> I don't understand your view though
It's not a view. It's a fact. Did you even learn your job somewhere? Any scientific background to this "work in digital advertisement"? Ads steal your attention. You can't do anything about it and most of the time you don't even have any kind of profit from it. To say it in the new cultures terms: it's mind rape.
> I think many people, you included, misunderstand the economic benefit of advertising.
Please spare me that marketing talk. I do accept that there are ads on the internet. Sure. Some people even watch and click them. But just like the part you ignored in my previous comment you seem to intentionally forget about _extend_ here too. There is a huge difference between a cookie and a canvas fingerprint. There is a difference between a picture advertising a product and an autoplay video or malware infected script. There is an difference between an IP in your HPs log and a live track of a user.
The internet would have not gone bankrupt without the higher extend of advertisement intrusion. It's a lie to make advertising companies make even more money because that's what you do on the market. Their new product is data, profiles build upon that data (the more data about a single user, the more worth it is) and the continuous lie about the customer who WANTS their tips on where to spend money. I don't want those tips. I don't know anyone who wants them just like I don't know anyone who didn't want an adblocker installed. Think about it. The trust is gone. Forever.
> I work in digital advetising and see no reason to distrust the industry.
Of course you do...it's soothing for me though because such an amount of ignorance would be frightening.
> I'm not sure what you mean by sneaky methods,
Then you are a pretty shitty digital advertiser. You need to get some updates fast.
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> Edit - very true that most people don't understand it. But then again most people don't understand anything they use daily (the internet, any app, etc).
So you assume that this gives you a carte blance? I mean, this attitude by people from the ad industry is just another reason nobody trusts you.
Imagine, that I'd be tricking your grandparents into letting me into their apartment by brabbleing some tech bullshit about their cable. I wouldn't do any kind of work. They'd have no benefit at all but I'd have stolen their photo album.
With your world view, I had the justification to do it because they didn't understand a single word I told them to get in their house.
Would you like that?
aluhut|8 years ago