The world would be a far better place if advertising were greatly restricted - not just because it's annoying and bad for privacy, but also because it's bad for economies. Advertising is why you could work hard at a career your whole life and make less money than Kim K would for farting into a walkie-talkie (or less theoretically, less money than Karl Lagerfeld's cat made for posing on car's dashboard), and it also fuels much of the IP industry's work-once-get-paid-forever business model. It should be restr
Nice FP, though as I follow the discussion I'm pretty sure there won't be much about actual solutions. That's because I already searched for "auction" and know it isn't here, but it must be the key to the new problems being created by the google. There is a hint in the summary (in the "Cohorts" of FLoC, because the new scam will (obviously) involve auctioning of cohorts (as bundles of individuals) to the paying advertisers. From that perspective the relevant literature involves auctions of bundled goods, but the search for "auction" yields null. (Currently at 58 comments.) (If you want to see the research, then https://www.google.com/search?... [google.com] is a starting place. (However the new google's basic tactic is to run fast and keep changing the game before getting "caught". (But not just the google.)))
Too much preface, but I just want to ask "How?" What specific forms of restriction do you think would work with advertising.
Shocking, but I don't see any good solution approaches here because (1) Free speech and (2) It's too hard to define what a lie is and (3) The politicians (and even the regulators) are too easily bribed to rig the rules of the game.
Advertising should be greatly restricted (Score:5, Interesting)
The world would be a far better place if advertising were greatly restricted - not just because it's annoying and bad for privacy, but also because it's bad for economies. Advertising is why you could work hard at a career your whole life and make less money than Kim K would for farting into a walkie-talkie (or less theoretically, less money than Karl Lagerfeld's cat made for posing on car's dashboard), and it also fuels much of the IP industry's work-once-get-paid-forever business model. It should be restr
Re:Advertising should be greatly restricted (Score:2)
Nice FP, though as I follow the discussion I'm pretty sure there won't be much about actual solutions. That's because I already searched for "auction" and know it isn't here, but it must be the key to the new problems being created by the google. There is a hint in the summary (in the "Cohorts" of FLoC, because the new scam will (obviously) involve auctioning of cohorts (as bundles of individuals) to the paying advertisers. From that perspective the relevant literature involves auctions of bundled goods, but the search for "auction" yields null. (Currently at 58 comments.) (If you want to see the research, then https://www.google.com/search?... [google.com] is a starting place. (However the new google's basic tactic is to run fast and keep changing the game before getting "caught". (But not just the google.)))
Too much preface, but I just want to ask "How?" What specific forms of restriction do you think would work with advertising.
Shocking, but I don't see any good solution approaches here because (1) Free speech and (2) It's too hard to define what a lie is and (3) The politicians (and even the regulators) are too easily bribed to rig the rules of the game.