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this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2023
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No one's saying they can't run ads. The problem is the extreme invasion of privacy to run targeted ads. If their business can't survive without violating your privacy, then maybe their business doesn't need to survive.
I won't even touch on the political ramifications of what privacy exploitation has created.
Here's the problem I see with that: What do you think their sites/apps would look like with un-targeted ads? You get less revenue from those, so you'd need more of them.
I mean, their site is already quite cluttered with ads as is. But again, if it becomes so cluttered with ads that it resembles going to a pirate streaming site without ad blockers, then so be it. People will get sick of it and stop using those sites, which I'm completely okay with. That type of hyper social media has had a net negative effect on society at large, so we'd honestly be better off without them. And yes, Lemmy is a form of social media, but it's hardly the super addictive dopamine exploiter that algorithm driven sites/apps are.