New “Ad Camouflage” feature replaces Grandma with Grubhub, seamlessly
Ugh that could happen. I wish the Onion would post more unbelievable stories like “Meta, Alphabet and other big tech names are leaving all of us alone. Everything is free again, you can masturbate in private again, and you don’t have to subscribe to use your printer or use an app to flush your toilet.”
This onion was so sweet i almost ate it.
Shit, this feels like peering into a future we are powerless to avoid.
This idea never occurred to me before, but this absolitely sounds like something Google or whoever else will try doing at some point down the road.
If there exists a vector for ads to be delivered to users, they will take it.
We may very well be powerless to stop them from doing this, but it would seem extremely easy to avoid.
I think for people who actively avoid it, but so many people are so beholden to the services they use, they can’t imagine any alternative, and they’ve built both a mental model of the world and social groups that include these services.
Like if they don’t post the new cute “Starbucks pumpkin spice’d up your photos” thing on insta when all their friends do, how will they be regarded? Will their social clout drop?
Our social systems need to be decoupled with social media (read: capitalism) and then we can make steps forward, though it seems we may have to drag people kicking and screaming toward that
Really does feel like that sometimes x3
