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Iheartcheese@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days ago

Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads

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Iheartcheese@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days ago
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A recent tell-all by a Facebook insider reveals the insidious nature of Facebook's advertising empire, and the dangerous consequences.
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    Advertising targeted towards minors needs to be banned.

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      As with basically everything bad in the US, it’s another reminder that Reagan was a human shitstain.

      Your classic 80s cartoons were toy commercials. Candy, toys, cereals started being marketed directly to children.

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      Advertising targeted towards minors needs to be banned.

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        Advertising itself isn’t a bad thing.

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          No, it’s… it’s pretty bad.

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            Some level of advertising is a necessary evil when you’re in a capitalist system because otherwise people have no way to get their products out ti the market. There’s a balance to be struck.

            Hell even in other systems advertising is still important for finding out about cool new things even if money no longer exists

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              Word of mouth is the most powerful type of advertisement that no one is against.

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                We all know if every other way of advertising was banned, they’d start paying (or “incentivizing”) millions of people to “do word of mouth” for them.

                And then we’ll have those people polluting every online space with unlabeled ads. No thank you.

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                  Like they are already? Iol

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                    They’re not “millions” right now. Imagine every single dollar they currently spend for different types of advertising, all used as budget for astroturfing. It would turn every online space into bots talking to themselves and nothing else.

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