US says troops were targeted with location data, as senator warns ad industry is a ‘national security threat’

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/...

voytrekk 58 points 25 days ago

They are so close to understanding a solution, but they failed to choose the correct one.

The real issue is that it is legal for these companies to stalk us then sell that data freely. Limit data collection for all citizens and heavily punish companies who continue to track.

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mPony 25 points 25 days ago

None of them have the guts to put CEOs behind bars.

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Bluefruit 5 points 24 days ago

We dont even need them behind bars, give them fines that actually hurt. Talking several billions of dollars.

They likely wouldn't do that either though but ffs I'd love it if they did something

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undergroundoverground 0 points 25 days ago

If the CEOs didn't do it, the shareholders would ruin their lives.

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Zier 42 points 25 days ago

Advertising is a cancer.

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Tiger666 3 points 24 days ago

It is a(and one of the many we suffer from) symptoms of capitalism.

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BrianTheeBiscuiteer 3 points 24 days ago

Online advertising is a cancer I would say. When I get an ad mailer I'll look through pretty much the whole thing, because it's most likely local businesses and I know just looking won't come back to bite me in any way.

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FooBarrington 2 points 24 days ago

OTOH, it seems like ~44% of junk mail gets thrown away without ever being opened: https://zerojunkmail.org/environmental-impact

That's a bunch of environmental destruction and personal annoyances caused, so the label "cancer" seems fair to me.

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BrianTheeBiscuiteer 2 points 24 days ago

If they try to deceive me by making the outside look handwritten or using wording like "FINAL NOTICE" then yeah, straight in the trash without a 2nd look. If it's obviously an ad from the get go I'll usually give it a skim at least.

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FooBarrington 1 point 24 days ago

That's good! But I'd still prefer if I and the other 44% could at least say "please stop producing and sending us trash".

They should really make mailed advertisements opt-in, but of course the industry won't do that. And this what makes it cancerous IMO: they never give up trying to inject ads into people's lives.

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dan1101 -4 points 25 days ago

OTOH, serving content is not free and something needs to pay the hosting/publishing bills.

The problem IMO is invasive ad serving tech and deceptive ads, which are often both uncurated and deceptive.

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tyler 9 points 25 days ago

Sure, serving content isn’t free. Maybe we don’t need to serve so much damn content then.

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iknewitwhenisawit 30 points 25 days ago

Now that the US has declared itself a foreign adversary for every other country on the planet, can we start banning online ads, at least from US companies?

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Antaeus 15 points 25 days ago

They have condoned it for years. Pfff… double standards in surplus.

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melsaskca 14 points 25 days ago

I can't even pause my TV to read something without an ad appearing a second later.

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beep 17 points 25 days ago

Psst, change your TV DNS server to AdGuard DNS. Also Check this out.

....Until we meet again.

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tidderuuf 10 points 25 days ago

I just bought a TV from a local B2B that does video displays/video walls. They had an extra 96 inch Planar, I paid a bit for them to haul it over but now I have a dumb TV with no bloatware installed on it.

Apparently they have leftover stock from big projects on occasion and are happy to sell them when that happens.

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swab148 3 points 25 days ago

How much was it?

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tidderuuf 2 points 24 days ago

3800, it's LCD but it looks the same as my old Samsung LED that died from 2012.

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boonhet 2 points 24 days ago