#advertising
#Microsoft confirms showing two new #ads on #Windows 11, calls them “notifications”
Windows Latest recently reported that Microsoft is showing new ads on #Windows11, including one for #BlackOps 6: Vault Edition and another for the Microsoft Defender app (the cross-platform version), which requires you to use #Microsoft365. In a statement to Windows Latest, Microsoft confirmed that these “notifications” were indeed served to users.
In the past you used to pay for proprietary software not to get #advertising and today it's the other way around.
#advertisement #os #software #news #economy #problem #fail #spam
The abject weirdness of AI ads. Not ads made using AI, ads made by AI companies about their AI products.
"I'm trying to find holiday gifts for my sisters. I open a bunch of tabs, I want my wife's advice."
"The company later pulled the ad after facing backlash for taking a sweet father-daughter exchange and automating it away."
"Many people pointed out that you could have just asked the stranger what type of dog they have, and maybe you would have found a friend alongside the dog's breed."
"An AI startup called Friend released a promotional video showing how lonely young people could have a virtual companion in the startup's AI device that they wear around their neck, instead of talking to others."
"Intelligence so big, you'd swear it was from Texas."
"Adapt your workforce at the speed of AI."
"AI that talks to cars and talks to wildlife."
#Trump fired his first minister before he took office. Trump thought he was no longer viable after it came out that he wasn't hitting on enough women. The guy was too woke.
Trump wants to sell #Poland to #Russia. The deal was arranged by Elon #Musk. In return, Russia will place more #advertising on #X.
Trump will shift all #government and official #communication to X. US citizens will have to buy X-Premium in order to communicate with the authorities. Trump confirmed these steps by saying that he is not interested in low-income earners anyway and that excluding them would make everything more efficient.
"Claude 3.5 Sonnet with about 20 hours of customization work is better than every junior and most mid level media buyers / strategists I have worked with and in 5 years I assume it will be better than 80% of senior people. The AI isn't coming for advertising. It's here."
Says the CEO of an AI marketing company, Jeromy Sonne, CEO of Daypart AI.
"Daypart is an AI accounts based marketing (ABM) advertiser that hooks into your CRM, uses AI to find and target your leads across nearly all major ad platforms, and optimizes ad campaigns to increase the close rates of your leads by 14%-67%+"
LG Smart TVs, including OLEDs, now show screensaver ads
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
Elon #Musk declares “it is #war” on ad #industry as #X sues over “illegal #boycott”
#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
Energy Conservation with Open Source Ad Blockers
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.
#Advertising
#DigitsQuips #masspsychosis #billhicks #savedmylife #advertisingormarketing #killyourself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h9wStdPkQY
Fake ads, real politics: the art of Foka Wolf, the ‘Birmingham Banksy’ – in pictures
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
#FTC to ban Avast from selling browsing data for #advertising purposes
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
#iPhone Apps Secretly Harvest Data When They Send You Notifications, Researchers Find
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...
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