Source: https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?id=1727255253
Do you remember the dystopia of #Bladerunner? You were bombarded by neon #advertising everywhere in a gloomy city. Apparently, this is exactly what the #digital #economy dreams of. Consumers who can no longer save themselves from advertising. Who voluntarily buys such devices?
#tv #business #ad #entertainment #consum #buy #Problem #news #Hardware #future #capitalism
#ElonMusk's X Corp. today sued the World Federation of #Advertisers and several large #corporations, claiming they "conspired, along with dozens of non-defendant co-conspirators, to collectively withhold billions of dollars in #advertising revenue" from the #social #network formerly known as #Twitter.
Elon is a brilliant #mastermind because he can stop advertising without an #AdBlocker. :D
#justice #usa #economy #conspiracy #problem #advertisement #law #news #finance
by Joshua M. Pearce
Technologies 2020, 8(2), 18; doi.org/10.3390/technologies80…
Abstract
Internet-related electricity consumption is rising rapidly as global Internet users spend more than 6.5 h per day online. Open source ad blockers have the potential to reduce the time and thus electricity spent using computers by eliminating ads during Internet browsing and video streaming. In this study, three open source ad blockers are tested against a no-ad blocker control. Page load time is recorded for browsing a representative selection of the globally most-accessed websites, and the time spent watching ads on videos is quantified for both trending and non-trending content. The results show that page load time dropped 11% with AdBlock+, 22.2% with Privacy Badger, and 28.5% with uBlock Origin. Thus, uBlock Origin has the potential to save the average global Internet user more than 100 h annually. The energy conserved if everyone in the United States used the open source ad blocker would save over 36 Americans lives per year if it were to offset coal-fired electricity generated-based pollution. In the United States, if all Internet users enabled Privacy Badger on their computers, Americans would save more than $91 million annually. Globally, uBlock Origin could save consumers more than $1.8 billion/year. Open source ad blockers are a potentially effective technology for energy conservation.
#energyconservation #energy #opensource #freeandopensourcesoftware #FOSS #freesoftware #adblocker #Internet #Internetadvertising #advertising #tracker #browsertracking #internet tracking #webtracking #trackerblocker #trackerprotection #malwareblocking #malwareprotection #privacy #internetprivacy
Bill Hicks saved my life, by telling me to kill myself. for my part in intentionally inducing mass psychosis as the very purpose of my job.
#DigitsQuips #masspsychosis #billhicks #savedmylife #advertisingormarketing #killyourself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h9wStdPkQY
The Guardian
Anonymous street artist Foka Wolf uses the language of advertising to highlight political and social issues, from the PPE crisis to food banks. “I grew up in a low income, single-parent household,” he says, “so I take it very fucking personally when people in power try and demonise those who are broke and voiceless.” Known as the Birmingham Banksy (“I prefer Poundland Banksy”), Wolf has fooled countless people with his fake billboards. “There’s a lot of power in putting words on paper. One poster was offering students money to grow 23 pairs of ears on their back and quite a few people were up for it.” During tough political times, does it get harder to make satire? “Easier. More dickheads – more targets.” (...)
Tags: #art #street_art #protest #advertising #social_issues #food_banks #climate #climate_change #climate_crisis #social_services #inequality #poverty
The complaint says #Avast violated millions of consumers' rights by collecting, storing, and selling their browsing data without their knowledge and consent while misleading them that the products used to harvest their data would block online #tracking.
#news #crime #economy #security #software #scandal #internet #browser #fail #consumer #software
source: https://gizmodo.com/iphone-apps-can-harvest-data-from-notifications-1851194537
Users sometimes close apps to stop them from collecting data in the background, but this technique gets around that #protection. The data is unnecessary for processing notifications, the researchers said, and seems related to #analytics, #advertising, and #tracking users across different apps and devices. Some of the companies involved said these findings are inaccurate.
#surveillance #privacy #software #problem #news #security #apple #economy #internet #mobile
London is quite literally covered in these score online stickers...
#Photo
#Photography
#Photographer
#MyWork
#onlineDope
#Advertising
By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing…kill yourself. It’s just a little thought; I’m just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day they’ll take root – I don’t know. You try, you do what you can.
(Kill yourself.)
Seriously though, if you are, do.
Aaah, no really. There’s no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan’s little helpers. Okay – kill yourself.
Seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good.
Seriously.
No this is not a joke. You’re [going], “There’s going to be a joke coming.” There’s no fucking joke coming. You are Satan’s spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It’s the only way to save your fucking soul. Kill yourself
Planting seeds.
I know all the marketing people are going, “He’s doing a joke…” There’s no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend – I don’t care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking machinations. (Machi…) Whatever, you know what I mean.
I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too: “Oh, you know what Bill’s doing? He’s going for that anti-marketing dollar. That’s a good market. He’s very smart.”
Oh man, I am not doing that, you fucking, evil scumbags!
“Ooh, you know what Bill’s doing now? He’s going for the righteous indignation dollar. That’s a big dollar. A lot of people are feeling that indignation. We’ve done research – huge market. He’s doing a good thing.”
Godammit, I’m not doing that, you scum-bags! Quit putting a goddamn dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet.
“Ooh, the anger dollar. Huge. Huge in times of recession. Giant market. Bill’s very bright to do that.”God, I’m just caught in a fucking web.
“Ooh, the trapped dollar, big dollar, huge dollar. Good market – look at our research. We see that many people feel trapped. If we play to that and then separate them into the trapped dollar…”
How do you live like that? And I bet you sleep like fucking babies at night, don’t you?
“What didya do today, honey?”
“Oh, we made ah, we made ah arsenic a childhood food now, goodnight.” [snores] “Yeah we just said, you know, is your baby really too loud? You know?” [snores] “Yeah, you know the mums will love it.” [snores]
Sleep like fucking children, don’t ya. This is your world, isn’t it?
#BillHicks #Advertising #Marketing #Propaganda #Satire #Comedy #StandUp #Jester #GiveItToTheMan #Gold
https://odysee.com/final_62f82588b06e480079d834b2_629888:3
and referenced in that^ is:
https://odysee.com/@Patriots:2/Where-Did-the-Rest-of-the-Internet-Go:f6 [<- ironically missing. evidence of its claims? Interesting to search for anyway... many other articles exploring the phenomenon, besides https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zyJB45ewvU ]
and referenced in that is ""
https://www.ecosia.org/search?tt=e8eb07a6&q=is%20the%20internet%20shrinking%3F&addon=brave
#RealityTunnels #ControlledNarrative #DivideAndConquer #GroupThink
#Government #GovernMind #Advertising #Marketing #PublicRelations #CuratedImageOfReality #Fundamentalism #AcceptedNarrative #OvertonWindow #EchoChamber #CancelCulture #CyberPurgatory #agnogeny #bigotry #antifree #inthebox #official
#websearch #internet #theweb #theinternet #searchengine
#backintheday #itwasnotalwayslikethis
"there's nothing dangerous about sharing ideas and discussing things.
the only thing dangerous is withholding information from you that provides you having a complete and total perspective of what the truth may be."
"what happened to the internet? where's the rest of it?"
it wasnt always like this.
Meanwhile in #Muskville
The new ads also don't disclose who the advertiser is or that they are even ads.
#MuskVirus #X #ads #musk #advertising #privacy #media #Twitter
Sie wissen ja, eine #Frau hat zwei #Lebensfragen: "Was soll ich anziehen?" und "Was soll ich kochen?"
quick,
destroy more,
make shoddier,
replace sooner,
externalities, externalities, externalities,
rebrand the devil angelic,
keep telling the slaves they're free,
destroy the competition,
suppress the innovations that obsolete the rents.
look at all that churn.
look at all that wealth transfer.
pay no attention to the orders magnitude more wealth destroyed.
keep calling wealth extraction maximisation "profit".
keep calling poverty a virtue to the impoverished.
keep saying the churn is progress and riches.
trot out worshippers of the Gross Domestic Product.
dont you just love capitalism?
maybe capitalist barons care.
maybe this psycho is best.
believe harder. the lies are true.
buy more.
stay dependent,
on your abuser,
because they took everything.
dont you just love capitalism?
#digitspoems #capitalism #churn #GDP #TheCorporation #ThePsychopath #wealthextractionmaximisation #poverty #marketing #advertising #plannedobsolescence #dependence #austerity #rentierism #rents #barons #bigbaron #buy #buybuybuy #consumerism #economics #freedom #deception #emancipation #oppression #orwellianism
