| ▲ | lokar 9 hours ago | |||||||
Ads are extremely computationally cheap | ||||||||
| ▲ | cvwright 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
But mining all the tracking data in order to show profitable targeted ads is extremely intensive. That’s what kicked off the era of “big data” 15-20 years ago. | ||||||||
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| ▲ | DonHopkins 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
But making good people work on ads instead of something useful has an enormous cost to society. | ||||||||