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Comment The guy can't even make pillows (Score 4, Informative) 191

His pillows are seriously uncomfortable and sub-standard. His TV ads are hyper-targetted at old, poor, rural, uneducated white people:
1. the "factory floor" where sacks are pumped full of his "patented fill"
2. the entirely white "workforce" and example "customers"
3. the conspicuous cross around his neck
4. the 1950s time-warp jingle
5. the deceptive "special" offers
The severe reactionary nature of his ads may make his customers feel the comfort of reactionary nostalgia, but his pillows won't give them any comfort, unless they were laying their heads down on gravel before.

Why is it a surprise his website would be rubbish? (And why hasn't he been arrested for treason yet?)

Comment Google's Chrome moving in this direction (Score 1) 241

Google's moves to have Chrome store data about you in the browser and put you into groups based on your interests for ad purposes could lead in this dystopian direction too. They say they want to rid the world of third-party cookies, but their replacement is actually scarier.
Questions:
1. Why should there be a replacement for third-party cookies? Advertising money.
2. Why does Google want to build it into the browser? More control for Google over the ad market.
3. Why do people accept this? I don't know. Advertising companies, including Google, do not own the internet. They act as if the internet owes them ways to track people. It doesn't.
4. What can be done? Some Chromium-based browsers say they won't use Google's browser-based tracking at all. Others probably won't.

*But really what should be done is that an advertising company should be prevented legally from making browsers at all.*

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