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by true_pk 483 days ago
Hey, author here. Good point! Historically, all sales people are in a way manipulators, and the best of them are those who know human psychology and behavior. This hasn't changed with how we advertise today. But we should be more restrictive with how we handle the data, who can access it and what they can have access to. That's not as much on the advertising industry as it is on regulations around technology, which is only a recent subject for discussion.
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> That's not as much on the advertising industry as it is on regulations around technology

What I hear in that is "treating people badly is OK as long as it's legal". That may or may not be what you meant, but that's what it sounds like to me. I think that's an ethically unsupportable stance.