Comment by zaphirplane
15 days ago
Advertising has existed and powered tv and radio before the internet. That’s great / grandfather territory for some
15 days ago
Advertising has existed and powered tv and radio before the internet. That’s great / grandfather territory for some
The issue isn't advertising, it's targeted advertising which is a very different and far more problematic beast than the advertising of your grandparent's time.
In the interest of not getting bogged down in semantics, let's just always assume that when people say "advertising" in this era, they mean "targeted advertising". Then we can avoid yet another tired attempt at excusing Meta's behavior.
people should use the correct words
They are. The meaning of words changes over time, and with context. When talking about advertising on the internet, it's all targeted advertising (except some tiny unimportant fraction). There's no need to type "targeted" every time, it's redundant.
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