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Comment by echelon

As someone who has adblocked everything since my teenage years, the whole ad industry seems to be making orders of magnitude more money than it should. I just don't understand how anyone comes to buy things shown in ads.

Are ads really effective? I don't buy advertised products.

Do we really trust ad tech accounting? They've been caught inflating numbers over and over again.

The whole house of cards seems like it could fall over if actually investigated. Google, Facebook, Twitter - every single one of them.

Influencer and direct social referral advertising seem much more "legitimate" than injected ad impressions.

How can we get the thing to implode? Google has destroyed the web to prop up its ad business. I'd be happy if they couldn't cause any more trouble.

parent echelon 7 years ago

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