Tagged “advertising”

and relatable HN thread

Nice writing. Interesting little random snippet on commercials over the decades

People seem to have been worse at interviewing in the fifties, but maybe they just had different sensibilities.> Or rather, they must have had different sensibilities, but did these just involve lower standards, or would a fifties viewer be reading things from the exchange and appreciating things about it that I am blind to? This kind of mystery seems like a thing to keep in mind in general.
It also seems quite hard to answer these questions.

Great summary in top comment

1. Medium: text -> images -> video -> 3D graphics -> VR
2. AI: time -> rank -> recommend -> generate
3. UI: click -> scroll -> tap -> swipe -> autoplay

That we get more immersive and more passive

from thread on Mr Beast

As they all move to suggested posts and farther away from being networks people use for social.

What should we call the replacements?

Can relate to this. Avoiding ads most of the time I find TV ads very jarring

Gross and too real.

Reading this made me feel a little more justified in my general distrust of browser extensions. They have so much potential power!

The stats I've seen on this tracking toggle are pretty wild. Will be interesting to see how the next period unfolds for advertisers. If history is any guide they'll get even shadier and look for terrible workarounds, but we can dream.

Disabling motd news
Disabling the news part (the pingback to canonical) is simple. Edit the following file:

vim /etc/default/motd-news
Change ENABLED=1 to ENABLED=0.

Stop spammy kubernetes messages when logging in to server

Interesting post/thread.

Insert more ads. Signal to noise goes down. Value to user shrinks. Value of user to advertisers decreases. Insert more ads. A vicious cycle that de-prioritizes the user experience.