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US says troops were targeted with location data, as senator warns ad industry is a ‘national security threat’ (www.wyden.senate.gov)
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[–] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 5 months 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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