Pluralistic: Mark Zuckerberg announces mind-control ray (again) (07 May 2025)

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Mark Zuckerberg announces mind-control ray (again): The business model for AI is the same as the business model for Big Data – bilking credulous advertisers.
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Ad-tech targeting is an existential threat: Targeting people with chronic illnesses, parents of sick kids, military personnel with gambling problems, seniors with dementia, and national security decisionmakers.
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The cod-Marxism of personalized pricing: From each to their ability, to each according to their need?
Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 3): DEFINITELY not a pyramid scheme.
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The Google antitrust remedy should extinguish surveillance, not democratize it: "People like relevant ads" is a lie, and "attribution" is an abomination.
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The surveillance advertising to financial fraud pipeline: Finding suckers is the one thing ad-targeting is good at.
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Google makes millions on paid abortion disinformation: The real secret of "dark SEO" is "pay for an ad."
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How Amazon transformed the EU into a planned economy: Monopsony, junk fees and market power.
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To save the news, ban surveillance ads: No publisher will ever beat ad-tech at spying, but no tech company will ever understand a publisher's content better than they do.
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