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   Amolith (amolith@nixnet.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Aug-2022 02:47:39 JST Amolith
   Someone on fedi said that ads pollute webpages and I think marketing emails are the same for inboxes. They make checking your email a massive chore when it should be a pleasant experience.
   
   I have absolutely zero respect for most people in marketing and advertising. Their entire job is taking up more and more of our already limited attention. These people and companies compete to steal our attention away from things that actually need it, from open source projects, from work, from your personal business, and from friends. Our collective attention is worth so much to these assholes that there's literally an entire economy built around it. Most of us don't mind giving it away left and right because we don't even realise how valuable it is.
   https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_economy
   
   Imagine how pleasant things could be if we got rid of "cold email campaigns" and daily newsletters and "here's what you missed!" and "check out our weekly deals!" and massive billboards on the side of the road and big banner ads on the news and three 20 second interruptions to our videos and sponsored products surrounding pictures of our friends' newborn and on and on and on
   
   Little by little, these things actively make our lives more and more unpleasant, but because they've crept up on us and because they're small things here and there, we don't even notice them any longer.
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     Wrongthink (wrongthink@cdrom.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 18-Aug-2022 09:31:39 JST Wrongthink

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     • digdeeper

     @digdeeper @amolith I remember seeing some article about a hypothetical augmented reality “adblock”. You would put on the glasses and it would automatically identify and black bar real world ads. No way would anything like that every get built and sold without it being taken advantage of for additional user tracking. Worst timeline.

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     digdeeper@mastodon.honeypot.im's status on Thursday, 18-Aug-2022 09:31:40 JST digdeeper

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     @amolith What are you going to do about the ads that are outside? You don't own the land.

     Now, most people think that it's wrong to just rip the ads off. I disagree, and that's the path I recommend.

     In the end, it's about human good vs profits, and this world chose profits.

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     寮 (ryo@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Thursday, 18-Aug-2022 09:44:37 JST 寮

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     • Wrongthink
     • digdeeper
     @wrongthink @digdeeper @amolith DigDeeper would perhaps be doing "ad ripper" in Japanese trains as a full time job.
     Because Japanese trains are literally full of ads literally everywhere.
     
     Not my photo, and it shows considerably fewer ads than how much there are in the same train, but you'll get the idea.
     And yes, there's actually a TV displaying TV ads (though muted).