The issue isn't advertising, it's targeted advertising which is a very different and far more problematic beast than the advertising of your grandparent's time.

In the interest of not getting bogged down in semantics, let's just always assume that when people say "advertising" in this era, they mean "targeted advertising". Then we can avoid yet another tired attempt at excusing Meta's behavior.

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zaphirplane 6 days ago | parent [-]

people should use the correct words

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esperent 6 days ago | parent [-]

They are. The meaning of words changes over time, and with context. When talking about advertising on the internet, it's all targeted advertising (except some tiny unimportant fraction). There's no need to type "targeted" every time, it's redundant.

	▲	zaphirplane 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		I don’t know why it’s so important to you to conflate the 2 and have privacy invading advertising synonyms with any form of advertising. I don’t think we have crossed the threshold to make them synonymous, feel free to provide data to back that claim globally not in some hip Silicon Valley I don’t own a tv market. My quick search shows targeted isn’t there