▲ 116 ▼ Mozilla acquired Anonym, an ad start-up (blog.mozilla.org) submitted 2 years ago by gomp@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml 40 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] helenslunch@feddit.nl 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 21 points 2 years ago (2 children) That's what I always say. Targeted advertising should be illegal. Contextual advertising is acceptable. If I'm on the star trek wiki, serve me ads for star trek, sci-fi, and whatever. You don't need to know anything about me specifically. We'd still need to do something about like ads that take up too much space, hurt page performance, or introduce malware, but removing the stalking would be an improvement permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 12 points 2 years ago Contextual ads can be simple images/html without 20 thousand scripts buried in permalink fedilink source parent [+] helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] ms_lane@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 child) When you drive by a billboard on the highway, is it invading your privacy? Possibly? Let me rephrase it a little- When you walk past a digital advertising screen at a Westfield Shopping Centre - is it invading your privacy? (The answer is a definite YES, they have facial tracking and keep metrics on where you go in the mall, how long you loiter in certain locations, what stores you go, whether you came back out with bags, etc) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] helenslunch@feddit.nl -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 21 points 2 years ago (2 children) That's what I always say. Targeted advertising should be illegal. Contextual advertising is acceptable. If I'm on the star trek wiki, serve me ads for star trek, sci-fi, and whatever. You don't need to know anything about me specifically. We'd still need to do something about like ads that take up too much space, hurt page performance, or introduce malware, but removing the stalking would be an improvement permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 12 points 2 years ago Contextual ads can be simple images/html without 20 thousand scripts buried in permalink fedilink source parent [+] helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 12 points 2 years ago Contextual ads can be simple images/html without 20 thousand scripts buried in permalink fedilink source parent
[+] helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 child) When you drive by a billboard on the highway, is it invading your privacy? Possibly? Let me rephrase it a little- When you walk past a digital advertising screen at a Westfield Shopping Centre - is it invading your privacy? (The answer is a definite YES, they have facial tracking and keep metrics on where you go in the mall, how long you loiter in certain locations, what stores you go, whether you came back out with bags, etc) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] helenslunch@feddit.nl -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[+] helenslunch@feddit.nl -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent