[matheusmoreira]

Pay for games? They shove ads in them, game engines even have support for this.

Pay for subscription services? They show you ads for their own shows at best or half a minute of paid advertising before every episode at worst.

Pay for anything at all? They track everything you do whether you pay or not. Worse: now they know you have disposable income since you're spending money on frivolous entertainment. The value of your attention just went up and so did the opportunity cost of not advertising to you. The more society pays, the more annoyed the executives get at the money they're leaving on the table.

What society needs to do is make advertising illegal. Just straight up prohibit it, consequences be damned. No buts, no compromises.

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/clean-city-law-secret...