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#AdTech:"Why are we repeating the same mistakes? Today we stand on the dawn of #cookiefree advertising, tasked with reimagining the world. Instead, we are dangerously close to a colossal failure of imagination. Our focus is on identity resolution graphs & hashed emails—the exact kind of tracking …

Privacy Signals, AI in Advertising & the Democratic Dilemma
Digital advertising is eliminating third-party tracking cookies, while replacing them with something just as bad: various private signals

"Adopting #Google’s strange new version of the web resulted in an irresistible flood of traffic for publishers at 1st: using AMP increased search traffic to one major national magazine’s site by 20%.
But #AMP came with huge tradeoffs…made it harder to use

Google AMP: how Google tried to fix the web by taking it over
Google promised to create a better, faster web for media companies with a new standard called AMP. But even after wide adoption, its poor implementation led to publishers abandoning AMP and, in the end, ruined the trust they had in the internet giant.

A bit of a rant (AdTech, Surveillance Tech, AI)
So… "#Microsoft announces #Copilot Plus PCs with built-in AI hardware". What joy/buzzword splurging this is…
#AdTech, #Alexa, #Nest, #Siri, "integration with OpenAI" do not help here either. Nor do things like the #BBC saying "just ask your smart speaker to play Radio 2" (:rolled_up_newspaper: News flash, your speaker isn't smart, it's just connected to something that can decipher some bits of language in specific orders… try using the command line, it's about as forgiving).
If people are going to trust it then it needs to be transparent in how it works. Having Microsoft Windows feed usage behaviour, email content, and goodness knows what else back into "the system" to "improve things" with no up-front way to opt-out is abhorrent. (When you start Microsoft Mail #Outlook Express, it says two things: 1. We'll store all your email on our servers, 2. We'll share "things" with over 800 third parties. If you don't like either of those things, don't use Outlook).
We thought #Google
was bad when it started scraping our email to place ads … when the OS starts doing that, you're in trouble.
And I'll just leave this here… "An attorney says she saw her library reading habits reflected in mobile ads. That's not supposed to happen"
#TheRegister

This article brilliantly makes fun of so many industries we're normally upset about. And in just one go. Heroic!
(And if you plan to buy a printer, despite already having three, do it through their #affiliate link)
#Fun #Publishing #SEO #Marketing #Advertising #AdTech #LockIn #ElectronicWaste #ManyMore
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24117976/best-printer-2024-home-use-office-use-labels-school-homework