This kind of shit should not be tolerated.
this post was submitted on 05 May 2025
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Advertising targeted towards minors needs to be banned.
All ads suck, but ads based on user rather than content go too far.
Advertising ~~targeted towards minors~~ needs to be banned.
Advertising itself isn't a bad thing.
No, it's.. it's pretty bad.
I know one example of advertising that I liked: the creators of Penny Arcade had only advertisements for computer games that they liked. And they made those ads in the same art style as their own comic.
Advertisements are good when they're an honest endorsement. Any others are inherently deceptive and often invasive.
Some level of advertising is a necessary evil when you're in a capitalist system because otherwise people have no way to get their products out ti the market. There's a balance to be struck.
Hell even in other systems advertising is still important for finding out about cool new things even if money no longer exists
If money doesn't exist how do you pay for the ads?
They can put up signs inside their business windows. That's plenty. Everything is a blight.
It's not 1950 anymore.
The book is very good. Reading it now. The writer starts off with a great story about a shark attack.
Did he choose electrocution over the shark attack?
lol, Jesus. It is like what a screen writer would come up with for a movie that contained a terrible company run by terrible people doing stuff so outlandishly terrible everyone watching would think "the absurdity of the terrible is how you know it is made up".
Centralized social media is an advertisement platform that targets advertisements according to information & conduct users feed the platform, and some of those users are teenagers?
They're advertising cosmetics to teenagers unlike ever before in the history of teen-centric media?
can't believe a social network started by incels in college to rate girls sexually would do something like this.
Facebook... now even more toxic than previously known!
That's 0% surprising. FB had always been about making girls feel bad. It's in its sorce code
even a scathing rant about surveillance capitalism becomes fodder for the machine, as you can clearly see with the ads on this page.
Ads? I can see no ads...
TIL teen girls still used Facebook.
Instagram too according to the article.
I get Instagram (lots of creative types there), Facebook is a bit surprising though.
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Goddam I had to read that headline 3 times before I understood the implication!
That is outright disgusting, and such practices ought to be outlawed.
Or as Trump would say, very cool and very legal way to make money.
Happy I got AdNauseam after uBlock Origin. Deleted my facebook a year ago, shit is an AI slopfest built upon the greed and manipulation of every part of the chain. Defcon 31 has a good talk that brings this up. "Disenshittify or die" by Cory Doctrow, cann recommend to watch.
What's AdNauseam?
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Teenagers should not be on social media. I rest my case.
I hearby petition an amendment for an expansion of the child protective laws to widen the definition of abuse, neglect, and reckless abandonment of children to include:
"letting children browse without ad blockers"
Humans should not be on social media.
Fixed.
They shouldn't, but also PSA to any parents but modern parenting advice typically is to let your kids use social media if they choose, and guide them through the social and emotional difficulties with good communication. Don't blanket ban it because they'll just use it anyways without guidance, and be unprepared the moment they turn 18.
It's a case of: 99.9% of kids are smoking cigarettes so yours will too. Better to show them how to use a weekly cigar without inhaling, than just ban it which won't work.
Not just teenagers. Facebook and quite a few others should outright be banned. Not only they are scientifically proven to be a mental health catastrophe and a political threat to democracy, it's also pretty clear now that both these things are part of their design, not bugs or unintended emerging properties.
Facebook actively contributed to the genocide in Myanmar, and did basically nothing about it because they didnt want to hire more moderators that spoke the language, so that they could adequately remove pro-genocidal content
That's sounds like blaming teens for the actions of the adults behind Facebook.
That's a fallacy. Teenagers are the victims here. So I'm obviously blaming greedy corporations, lack of good parenting and proper regulation from authorities.
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At some point we need to start criminalizing shit like this and actually holding people accountable.
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