If you consider this to be exploiting the consumer then this is a good example for the textbooks of how, in a free market, there has to be some regulation to prevent exploitation of those at the edges of society.
It’s exactly the same argument for laws against the most vulnerable types of sex work, or selling body organs donated by the living. Without those laws, those who are most desperate will be able to act in desperation, to someone else’s benefit, with society doing nothing to stand in the way.
It’s probably time ad-tech was re calibrated on this spectrum before we race to the exploitative-bottom there as well, and build a shopping mall that we don’t want on the open common land that we do.
It’s exactly the same argument for laws against the most vulnerable types of sex work, or selling body organs donated by the living. Without those laws, those who are most desperate will be able to act in desperation, to someone else’s benefit, with society doing nothing to stand in the way.
It’s probably time ad-tech was re calibrated on this spectrum before we race to the exploitative-bottom there as well, and build a shopping mall that we don’t want on the open common land that we do.