Exactly

Not just the internet

Yep, not on my watch they won't. 😎

Jokes doubly on them, I don't have the money to buy their stuff.

I need to update my pi-hole but I’m terrified to.. I’ve been using it for more than five years and it’s been a hands-off champion; I’m afraid if I updated it’ll get all fucked up and I’ll have to reinstall.

You just bought a thing you need one of. Let me now show you ads of that same thing forever.

Yes. Because targeted advertising is just selling something in it’s self. It was always a scam, but the mark os businesses that buy into the idea.

Couldn't predict the horror of ad overlays!

Is this the web browser in GTA?

I'm always horrified if I'm on a browser without a blocker, the web just so much more distracting and intense.

I've had some trouble setting up a pie-hole. It's an imperfect system and something of a constant struggle between advertisers and ad-blockers.

If you've escaped every digital ad over the last 25 years, congrats. I'm reasonably tech savy, use adblockers where I can, and haven't been remotely this fortunate.

However, there have been reports of Facebook showing that your friends have liked posts and pages, when the people deny having liked them.

Yep, I think that's the real terror of it, is that the line between ad and content will blur even further. There's already everything ranging from astroturfing to paid endorsements, but eventually AI maybe can get good at finding that line of what you think is trustworthy and crossing it maliciously.

Amazon recommended me a book by Charlie Kirk. I guess the algorithm hasn't got me yet.

Just wait. There’s so much that could be done with AI.
You could even include visual cues for every demographic, like hobbies, occupations, country of origin and so on. If the ad has a picture of an object relevant to your life, it will probably have absolutely nothing to do with the product they’re pushing.
If you didn’t hate ads already, the future will probably make you want to throw a molotov cocktail at the front door of the ad company.

"There's nothing like a sea of white"

I bet that someone will force them to only use White skin color and strip DEI.

Sorry what?

I think I've misunderstood you because this is certainly possible, and I'm sure you're aware of that.

it will be hard to make african american have white people skin, it would be so obvious

That's one hundred percent what I thought I was going to see. We've been doing it as people, making movies with black people to appeal to black people, making ghost busters with all women to appeal to women. And I'm by no means suggesting that it is effective, but I'm also just some white guy and everything has been targeted at me. I just figured the ad would look more like you, and it'd make you more comfortable, or that would be the idea.

If current “personalized ” advertising is any indication, the new ai ads will push

• whatever you most recently bought
• gambling
• something relevant to whatever demographic it’s hallucinating

But it will never do something useful like advertise things you’re searching for

The rice and bean barons will be competing for your attention.

Have you seen daytime TV? It's a sea of ads for shite you'd never want, and if you have no money for the shite, there's ads for loans as well.

At this point Minority Report's mostly ordered but slightly corrupt-behind-the-scenes society seems almost utopian.

Nope, we're getting Biff Tannen's Back To The Future 2 reality as a base, with a free AI dystopia expansion pack.

Heck, the present is ublock origin!

I’ve been blocking ads for like 30 years. I see so little advertising I feel like an alien.

In an geological scale of time, humanity will very soon cease to exist and this will be undisputed truth

Adnix by S.R.Hadden.

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Content.asp?Bnum=2223

I think the future of obvious ads are Ai, but the future of ads are your own family members and friends hawking dish soap for 1% commission rates on their social media.

I swear to god, officer. It said "just do it" at me. And I took that personally.

At the very least, he deserves several decades as a junior janitor in the Bhasan Char refugee camp (with full asset seizure) for his contribution to the Rohingya genocide. A similar rehabilitation approach should be applied to multiple other Meta executives as well and the whole board of Meta.

And when I say "asset seizure", I mean every last cent, with all family members and business partners being forced to sign affidavits agreeing that should any assets be found and there is reason to believe they were involved, they'll have to partake in the same rehabilitation program as Zuckerberg (including affidavits for their family members and business).

It's a scalable and efficient approach to justice.

Agreed. I literally use an adblocker on youtube videos that are mostly 1 hour+ 80s/90s nostalgia ad compilations set to vaporwave lol

The issue is that advertizing used to have incentive to be compelling, interesting, memorable, or otherwise just leave you with a good feeling/association with the product they were trying to promote.

Now that every slop corporation is under the impression that they have your attention hostage, they feel justified in shoving literal 3-minute long reels of tiktok videos with MLM chicks screeching about how their makeup is "deadass rizz on god". You can beat your ass it's gonna be blocked from my screen lol

Because you are not the customer of the ad networks. They are marketing bs to ad buyers, where you actually viewing the ad is merely incedental.

Oh shit where do I buy?