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Recommendation systems that aim to maximize time spent scrolling should be illegal.
@unktheunk TBH I'd go as far as banning all ads, but I don't think the world is ready for that one :P
@mauve I know that's not a thing I'd go for, since ads *can* theoretically have a purpose in society. Letting people know about products/services/events that they wouldn't have otherwise known of and whatnot
Whereas theres and argument to be made that individually targeted ads don't even really work to get people to buy things. And that the main people supporting the surveillance regime aren't the folks trying to sell things, it's "law enforcement" tracking troublemakers
@mauve I think a ban on individual-level ad targeting would have a similar effect
these algorithms are obscenely expensive to build and maintain. If the money incentive for doing that was gone, that business model would collapse