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by alaskamiller 4541 days ago
You don't put ads on sensors or detectors. That's just stupid. Especially when you put in all this effort to convince someone to pay $200 for it.

You use data to compose your internet shadow profile. Then you wait a bit for more MBA kids to crunch the spreadsheets that then figures out where you can be best distracted with an appropriately chosen ad.

And better yet, it's not even like the shadow profiles will ever disappear if Google goes kaput one day. Three other companies will be happy to take their place. Another dozen ad-tech companies after that.

This is where we are now. People being on the internet has ruined the internet. Complete ouroboros.