Comment by burnt-resistor
8 months ago
I suspect in the near future (if not already) ChatGPT data will be sold to data brokers and bough by Amazon such that writing a prompt will end up polluting Alexa product recommendations within a few minutes to hours.
I suspect that in the near future nobody will directly read product recommendations.
Oh for fuck sake
Can we not ruin every technology we develop with ads?
We need to make ads cost more than they are worth - here's one small way (what are others?): https://adnauseam.io/
Haha that's brilliant. Does it actually 'work'? I expect there is more to recording ads than simply a click?
Also is this somewhat not just lining Google's/ad networks pockets? They won't care about even a large-ish number of people using this add on.
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Watch Adam Curtis Century of the Self. I don't think he set out to explain ads in tech, but to my mind it answers a lot about how ads specifically came to power.
Might be of interest - new AC series: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jun/14/shifty-...
Let’s also not ruin every discussion with speculation about how someone will eventually ruin everything with ads.
when there's a need to make money, but there's noone who wants to pay (but they want to use the service), then it naturally falls onto being ad-driven.
> no one wants to pay
Fewer people went to pay. That’s the crux. Companies wanting mass market penetration, rather than just accept the natural size of the market.
Turns out that it doesn’t matter whether people want to pay. Many paid services also include advertising.