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Fear of missing out, or FOMO, is one of the advertiser’s most powerful tools.
Fear of missing out, or FOMO, is one of the advertiser’s most powerful tools.
And before newspaper?
And your email, identity document, photo, payment method… lots of fun data points to boil it down to a demographic of one person.
Bought? Never. I have a 2024 Western Europe road atlas in the pocket behind the driver’s seat, but I don’t know who bought it. I like to look at the pretty lines and funny names from time to time, but really OSM and it’s various client apps are what I actually use.
FWIW the EU’s eCall system doesn’t actually require a GSM module in the car; it’s enough to use a phone connected to the Bluetooth handsfree kit… That said, since most manufacturers already have the module for data-harvesting anyway it’s kind of moot.
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WINE is WINE Is Not Emulation. It’s right there in the name in the name.
Good bot.
Two videos for you to watch:
Hyper-Reality, a PoV short film featuring an overqualified gig worker in a world of ubiquitous, ad-laden and heavily enshittified AR. https://youtu.be/YJg02ivYzSs
This Euro-News article which features a Murdoch-owned advertising agency trying to get train windows turned into bone-conducting acoustic transmitters so weary travellers are forced to listen to ads as they resr their heads. https://youtu.be/1KZATgg7bJo
A well is the inverse of a stick.
Closest thing I can think of is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstem.
And now the only thing I can think of is https://youtu.be/snO68aJTOpM
It’s a shame I always miss that monologue because I use that time to run around locking all the exits and eating the keys.
Yeah, but I need the cash to buy more DDR RAM Memory.
I don’t know who NetZero are/were, but a number of UK ISPs were selling email and browser keywords to advertisers in the early aughts, including big players like BT and FreeServe. Some even tried to launch a project that would use DPI to inspect all web and email traffic and dynamically inject ads into email and webpages.
Even then, Hotmail, Y! Mail and your shitty ISP’s shitty POP mailbox were reading the contents of your emails and selling adverts based on the contents. At least with GMail they gave us the dignity of a nice UI and adequate storage.
Primitive tribe discovers personal rights.
Scotland and North-West England have excellent tap water. The water in the Midlands and London is perfectly safe to drink, but it certainly has a taste to it.
GDPR. Honestly, one of the greatest laws ever passed by anyone, anywhere. No hyperbole, it’s so simple and pro-dignity. It also offers a simple litmus test: if you oppose GDPR, I oppose you.