Total Advertising Denial
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/oct/24/advert...
Advertising is a poison that demeans even love – and we're hooked on it
With AI everywhere, the trust level gets even lower
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/psa-ebay-lets-chatgpt-make-up...
PSA: eBay lets ChatGPT make up item descriptions
And Chrome is playing its chrome games.
That is to say, sites can ask Chrome directly what kinds of topics you're interested in – topics automatically selected by Chrome from your browsing history – so that ads personalized to your activities can be served. This is supposed to be better than being tracked via third-party cookies, support for which is being phased out. There are other aspects to the sandbox that we'll get to.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/07/google_privacy_sandbo...
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37427227
> If an advert were to make it past an adblocker, this should be seen as an incident in itself, warranting full investigation and postmortem. If this sounds overkill, that in itself probably indicates you have come to accept the failure of adblocking far too often, and are accustomed to seeing adverts anyway.
> Browsers are supposed to be user agents; they are there to be on your side and advance your interests, nobody else's.
> Advertising is not socially neutral. It is shitting in people's heads, or squatting in them.