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   Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 03:26:27 JST Warner Crocker

   • om

   I concur with @Onmyom

   Taboola + Apple News? No thanks
   #Apple
   https://om.co/2024/07/16/taboola-apple-news-no-thanks/

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     Dwight Silverman (dsilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 03:31:47 JST Dwight Silverman

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     • om

     @WarnerCrocker @Onmyom I have personalized ads turned off in Apple News, and the ads are already awful and annoying, pre-Taboola. I am among those who think that, if you’re paying for Apple News+, it should be ad-free.

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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 05:55:57 JST Warner Crocker

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     • Dwight Silverman
     • om

     @dsilverman @Onmyom I have no objection to ads per se in the same way I never did in the newsprint and magazine age. (I feel old.) What Taboola (and others) do only qualifies as advertising in the sense that they can sell it, proving that the Internet evolution of some businesses should have had some intelligent design applied before it turned almost the entire proposition into the equivalent of a supermarket checkout line with a horde of monkeys tossing tabloid papers at customers.