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Entirely the wrong framing. The digital advertising community has endangered itself by using tactics known to be unfriendly to consumers, and unethical. Then they continually shot themselves in the foot by ignoring these changes coming at them for years. prescottenews.com/index.php/2022/11/24/opinion-ftc-risks-killing-digital-advertising-the-economys-golden-egg-inside-sources/?amp=1Permalink On twitter.com
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None of the FTC's actions should be a surprise & while attempting to make yourself too big to fail has been an obnoxiously common tactic in the US economy lately, I have no sympathy for those who try it and even less for those who, as it seems will happen with ad tech, fail at itPermalink On twitter.com
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At any time in the last 5 years ad tech could have self regulated or reformed & no one was better placed to lead that process than the IAB. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism was published in *2018*. It wasn't the beginning of this clear loud criticism, it was a culmination.Permalink On twitter.com
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3rd party cookies have been gone from every browser but Chrome for around as long. By some reports that's 40% of web users. This could have been incentive to change, but instead ad tech has doubled down on its most invasive tactics...Permalink On twitter.com
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An increasing number of people have voted for privacy laws in their states and countries. The number of web users adopting privacy technology has grown significantly. The ad tech ecosystem is continuing to double down on its most invasive practices...Permalink On twitter.com
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Ad tech as an industry is putting *everything* at risk. As the author notes ad tech has wormed its way into almost every level of commerce and web operations. It's operation has become a part of everyone's every day lives...Permalink On twitter.com
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It now operates everywhere on an endangered practice that will come crashing down any day as it becomes clear that ad tech relies on lying about the size of a vanishingly small percent of users who continue to support the web through not having the privilege of disabling trackingPermalink On twitter.com
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The author is right that this is a huge threat to the economy. Without any self regulation the ad tech economy has put itself in a ludicrous bubble that is expanding exponentially and puts every consumer at risk with ad tech's both precarious and unethical practices...Permalink On twitter.com
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Every day the percent of the population that is track-able decreases and the lie of ad tech's omnipresent surveillance that is at the core of the ecosystem's efforts comes a little closer to popping and taking down the US economy along with it...Permalink On twitter.com
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Like I've said before, the technology of ad tech can be both bad for society and spectacularly ineffective at supporting an increasingly fragile economy piled on top of it. Chronotope/1574062356409221122Permalink On twitter.com
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Our government must act because the ad tech community has made it clear that reckless pursuit of capital is its only mode of operation. It has resisted any attempt to work with it towards safer operation, it has refused to self regulate, it has refused to moderate...Permalink On twitter.com
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Our society is more than cheap ads. Our economy is more than surveillance. When an entire category of businesses refuse to moderate their own excesses, excesses which are endangering our economy and our society, which are endangering our human rights, the FTC *must* step in.Permalink On twitter.com
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Who cries for Enron's profits? Who weeps for wages of slave owners? Who regrets the end of profit at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory? Not me. Ad tech now is in the same place: a moral vacuum with its only defense its profitability. The end has been coming for a long time.Permalink On twitter.com
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At any time ad tech *could* self regulate, but that time is running out. Ad tech's refusal means it is almost entirely composed (if we go by capitalization) by fraudsters, invasive anti-user practices, outright liars, & fakes clinging on to the illusion of functional operation...On twitter.com
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Everyone who operates inside this space understands that massive fraud is the rule, not the exception, and it has been happening out in public for years. Chronotope/1078003966863200256Permalink On twitter.com
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At the same time that massive fraud is happening, the industry is constantly attacking users. It is obfuscating, invading, creating dark patterns, selling data, and making our society worse and more dangerous...Permalink On twitter.com
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Ad tech is the perfect storm of bad economics, bad for the state, bad for society and bad for the market in the long term that is ripe for government intervention. Chronotope/1078018209536708609Permalink On twitter.com
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Ad tech isn't the economy's golden egg. Ad tech is the economy's poison pill.Permalink On twitter.com
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