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I like how the assumption seems to be that the thing users object to about “websites track your browsing history around the web in order to show you targeted ads” is… the “websites” part
holy fuck, that’s such a good description of the shitty marketing tactic google is trying here. they’re shifting focus away from the awful shit they’re doing more of to something that doesn’t matter
When I worked in agencies you could pick the suits that had lost touch with reality by how much they seemed to believe that targeted ads are useful enough to be some kind of public service. Now google use the same rhetoric to justify user tracking
on the engineering side, I keep having to turn down executive feature requests with “this is functionally indistinguishable from malware”
Sites you visit can ask Chrome for your interests to show you ads.
Nifty. Let’s ask what my browser has to offer instead (Firefox + uBlock Origin).
Sites can not show you ads.
Hmm that’s a tough choice hmm.
But think of all the great ads you’re missing out on!
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
WEI: “Hold my beer.”
Ah yes, Google the benevolent gatekeeper to my user interest metrics, surely not to sell them to anyone who is willing to pay the smallest pittance upon mere request.
some times wonder if it’s worth building a service where someone pays a pittance as a test fee and then gets presented with whatever you can get together on them via RTB ads
because just showing someone the amount of data carried in an RTB packet is too disconnected from reality (which gets closer to “the bidder probably has your house geolocated just from the ad data on that one add the android app shoved in your face without warning”
(of course, the RTB houses would likely want to kill such a service because it would show just how much shit they tie together)
Example how even with much criticism Google is going to do their ideas anyway.
A thought I had a while back with google (and any other tech company I guess) with the same emotion that Rorschach has just before Dr. Manhattan disintegrates him: if they’ve already won, aka achieved virtual dominance over how we experience the web, then fine. Fucking break me with your personalised ads. Show me deep cut references from my personal life as emotional leverage. Orchestrate my nightmares with jingles. Show me the logical end of advertising. Just fucking end the human experience entirely since you’ve monetised all our dignity away anyway. Anything less than that is just an insult to my ability to hope.
Anyway yeah I hate this. Big ick
I wouldn’t mind filling out a survey for this type of stuff. Then I only tell them and they only know what I want them to. But they want the whole hand not the finger.
Plus I wouldn’t see the ads anyways. Only reason why I even forward that option, it’s that I know I can (still) sidestep the important part.