devonallie

While I agree with the authors sentiment, I do not think there is a difference in kind between TV advertising and social media advertising. I think it is a difference in scale. With the amount of data points a program can collect on user behaviour and identity, it becomes much easier to tune advertisements. This happens in TV as well (polling, viewership stats, demographics, focus groups) but obviously nowhere near to the same level of breadth and depth someone like Facebook can achieve.

Nova Scotia resident here, prices are already incredibly high even with the limited options for third party providers. For proper fibre my only option is Bell with a base price of $80/mo (w/ discount, typical rate of 109) for 150 symmetrical. With many people here switching to remote work, Bell knows what’s coming and is eager to continue raising prices.

Maybe it’s because I’ve been spending too much time thinking about packets, but I thought it was “digital” communication.

This story sets off my scam alarms. It also reminds me of the time that Samsung partnered with a group pretending to be Supreme.