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by joncrane 2939 days ago
You nailed it. When a company lives or dies by advertising revenue, they are going to optimize for maximum advertising revenue.

The pattern with TV is a good case study. I wonder if there will eventually be guidelines about how many ads you can show users and now much screen real estate is allowed to be covered by ads.
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r3bl 2939 days ago
> I wonder if there will eventually be guidelines about how many ads you can show users and now much screen real estate is allowed to be covered by ads.

Isn't that kind of what "acceptable ads" programs in adblocks are? (Or, at least, should be?) There are a lot of Adblock Plus users there that basically decided (or got tricked into thinking) that ads that are appropriate are okay to view.

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Rjevski 2939 days ago
The issue with "acceptable" ads is that 1) there is no such thing as "acceptable" shit, and 2) the "acceptable" ads are just as bad (if not worse) than everyone else as far as privacy & stalking are concerned.
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fjsolwmv 2939 days ago
Even if they limit to a reasonable 10% ads or whatever, they'll still manipulate ad sacrifice content quality to maximize total engagement time/content.
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