The who ad industry is a big house of cards, built on lies and statistics. It's a circlejerk of one MBA gobbling down the lies of another. But in the end, there seems to be money piling up somewhere. So, nothing will ever change.

If we're lucky, the ad industry will drift completely into the virtual world, were AI bots serving ads that other AI bots klick and consume, so humans don't have to be part of the game anymore.

I'd really be interested in how many "interactions" with ads are real humans conciously clicking or reading the bs, let alone "triggering a purchase decision".

I can't remember the last crash I had. Barely none since Win7.. Even on a "throwaway" installation for things that require the shadiest of drivers...
The only "crashes" that I have nowadays are Thinkpads going:

OMG I THINK MY BATTERY IS DEA.....*

And after Powering on again:

"Huh? what do you mean I shut down? Battery seems mighty fine! I believe you're imagining things..."

That comparison is wrong on so many levels, it's not even funny...

This entire post is sarcasm, right?

.... RIGHT?

My work Laptop, which is nothing more than a Thinclient with Teams (everything else has to be done on various remote machines, because security!!!), takes well over five minutes to be usable... And then it's "idling" at approx. 20% CPU, presumably because of all the security tools fighting each other who the mostestest securest is... It's ridiculous...

The Trump administration and the Epstein files clearly show that we are totally corrupted as a species. A few people, shoveling money on big heaps are driving us into the abyss, and nothing can be done about it. Maybe you can't even blame them. They simply are not capable of imaginig a world where things are different as they imagine them to be. Like 2D beings, living in a 3D world...

Oh look! The Anonymous Coward is defending the Homeland Gestapo, How curious!

They're on their way, there:
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10...
https://deadline.com/2026/01/d...

They all are...

1. report insane people
2. engagement rate goes up
3. profit

https://www.imdb.com/de/title/...

in 3...2...1...

Whlie you're at it, change it to an EV Ban! I for one welcome everything that will remove the cancer that we humans are from the face of the planet...

It will happen anyway, so rip off the bandaid as fast as possible! YAY!

I really wish it was....

Well, they are going to kill us anyways, maybe we can get over this faster this way.

I say: DO IT!

But nerds are gonna nerd... Noone is forcing anyone to buy anything.

A few years ago there were fugly phone cases for 10.000$ which sold like hotcakes to show anyone that you have soooo much money you don't really know what to do with it.