The Interactive Advertising Bureau, one of the biggest names in online advertising, held some sort of corporate event or whatever in January of this year, and the IAB CEO, David Cohen, held a speech there to rally the troops. Apparently, those of us who are fighting back against the online advertising industry? We’re “extremists”.
Extremists are winning the battle for hearts and minds in Washington D.C. and beyond. We cannot let that happen. These extremists are political opportunists who’ve made it their mission to cripple the advertising industry and eliminate it from the American economy and culture.
This guy, who uses double spaces after a period and hence is already on my shitlist, just gave us an amazing creed.
Then be prepared to add biden, trump and kamala to that list.
The only way democrats can win next time is RFKjr as he would ruin trump whilst still being true to his father.
Democrat royalty.
… What? The guy is an anti-vax, anti-science lunatic who collects conspiracy theories like some of us collect computers. If he won the nomination most Democrats wouldn’t even bother voting. Mark my words, he’ll be running as a third-party spoiler candidate after losing the primary.
I hear he is also an EXTREMIST PutinPuppet who hates America for OurFreedom, and the BiggestThreatToOurDemocracySinceJillStein 😉
I am a Democrat and I am definitely not voting for Biden or any other maniac war monger anti worker candidate the DNC crowns king of the party.
Calling someone a “spoiler” is a tacit admission that establishment candidates are so fragile and unlikable that they can’t win if voters are given more choice (you know actual democracy), not the same old tired two party false dichotomy.
This is so off topic.
You really think democrats vote for democrats because of vax and climate politics?
I’ve got a lot better reasons than that to vote for republicans… I want a non globalist president plain and simple that puts national interests first, and doesn’t get into international political spats, Trump was the only one that even ran in the past 20 years.
I am not a giant fan of advertising and certainly disapprove of a lot of the tactics that Internet advertisers in particular use against us. Then again, I also understand how much of the stuff I do like gets funded by advertising money. Being a lover of “free” stuff, it is a love / hate relationship with me.
I guess that is why I am not sure how to think about this story. Calling people that want to rein in the worst abuses of the advertising industry extremists is certainly offside and something that should be criticized and mocked. So, my first instinct to is pile on against what the IAB is saying.
That said, the wind is taken somewhat out of my sails if there really are extremists. With that in mind, is this the “amazing creed” that you are talking about: “Our mission is to cripple the advertising industry and eliminate it from the American economy and culture”? Because I would have considered him the extremist until you enthusiastically claimed that title by linking to a comment that exclaims: “And this, friends, is our mission statement RIGHT THERE.”
I mean, I could take it all as tongue and cheek but the very next comment on the page you linked is “Of course our ambition shouldn’t be limited to the US. Burning the online advertising industry to the ground needs to be a global undertaking.”
“Burn it to the ground” sounds like the battle cry of an extremist to me. Why exactly are we so eager to prove this douchebag’s point?
A touch hypocritical as well as long as this link continues to work:
https://www.osnews.com/advertise/
tanishaj,
Nothing is truly free though, in this case most of these “free services” are subsidized by us paying significantly inflated prices elsewhere.
If I were given the macroeconomic choice between paying higher prices and getting “free stuff” versus paying lower costs and not having free stuff, I’d choose the later because at least then I’d be able to spend the money I saved on the stuff I want and not having to settle for services from a giant advertising monopoly. So I end up having to pay the same inflated prices as everyone else and then on top of that also having to pay more to avoid google’s services. The status quo is loose loose for people like me 🙁
IMHO first person sponsorships are much better than 3rd party ads. I unsympathetically block google ads and trackers because as far as I’m concerned, it’s none of their business what I do and I feel that google tracking is a violation of privacy. The same dilemma doesn’t come up with first person content.
Unfortunately google’s monopoly is so strong that competing with them for advertising dollars has become non-viable for most companies. Even larger media companies are loosing to google. Google making trillions off of advertising money has consequently siphoned away the funding for news departments and professional journalists. Just a few decades ago it was still normal to have local journalists and original content. With the money gone, almost all of that had to be shut down. News departments and original journalism are dying at the local level and today most broadcasters get their news copy from highly consolidated news sources.
If you haven’t seen one of the videos that highlight this, it’s quite enlightening and shocking just how much of an echo chamber this news consolidation has created.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksb3KD6DfSI
Needless to say, this is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
Hence why we’re giving everyone the option of becoming a Patreon to remove all ads. Nobody is saying advertising should disappear just to make everything free. Something needs to replace it, and supporting creators directly, through things like Patreon, is the way to go.
https://www.patreon.com/osnews
Also…
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/do-you-rein-in-or-reign-in-something
I understand what he’s saying but it’s clear from his rant that he doesn’t understand the real damage that targeted political advertising can do, and why it needs to be regulated. Its so close with his rant against dark money which is 100% valid, but uhm bro; Where do you think that dark money gets spent … on targeted political ads…
I remember the internet before advertisements.
I will do my part to kill the ad-industry 😀
YES. Back when the internet was made up of static HTML “Web 1.0” webpages. Random servers in people’s homes were serving little websites. Every fandom had a “The Unofficial Homepage of…” And it all loaded just fine on a 56k modem.
Although I don’t miss all of the “This site requires a plugin”. I have a confession, I was one of the people that put a Shockwave (not Flash) animation on my Geocities page. I have since repented. -_-
>>double spaces after a period and hence is already on my shitlist
Hey! Some of us were taught to type that way.
If we get to be called “extremist”, so be it.
Unsolicited advertising should be as illegal as pickpocketing at free street art performances.
Just a matter of time until adblockers are added to the ADL’s ever-expanding naughty-list.