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joined 1 year ago
[–] blergh@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They know. The fact that targeted ads leveraging so-called "big data" are not more effective than standard advertising is now known to the public. We can bet Google knew this years in advance. But they can't abandon their whole business model since that would freak the stock market and investors out. So, they need to squeeze as much as they can before the entire model becomes unworkable and they'll be forced to switch to something else or disappear.

[–] blergh@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A question for AC veterans: does the presence of a lock-on change things too much? Is it way easier now?

[–] blergh@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah that’ll happen when you prop up artificial nation states with no culture, history, or identity.

It’s high time to end the madness, divide the thing between Croatia and Serbia. And before anyone accuses me of “GrEaTer serbIAn NaTIOnaLism” be aware that Croatia would get most of it.

[–] blergh@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 year ago

Just get off the bird site, use Mastodon or even better don’t microblog at all.