• markovs_gun@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    It offends advertisers. To be honest I would be really interested in seeing if anyone has actually studied if any of this shit even does anything. Like it seems like complete nonsense that seeing a coca cola ad next to a post about theft would make someone less likely to buy coke in the future but we are currently ruining society based on this premise.

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        4 days ago

        Hard agree here. The internet was better before every single aspect of it got monetized. It was cool when ads were just banner ads on websites sometimes with silly gifs.