On: New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads

[soared]

Always interesting to see the "advertising industry needs to die" comments here. 40% of FAANG is built purely on advertising (7% of the S&P500). Some non-zero percent of commenters are employed by adtech funded companies.

[alkonaut → soared]

”My employer should switch to a different business model or go under” isn’t a weird opinion.

[soared → alkonaut]

"The industry I work in should die for ethical reasons."

- Skilled knowledge worker who could move to another industry, but the money bought out their ethics.

[alkonaut → soared]

I said “change or”. That’s an important distinction.

Lots of people work in industries that have questionable practices.

It’s a pretty far jump from working at, say, a newspaper that shows ad-network ads (which I find questionable and I think falls into the category “find a new business model or die”), and working for something actually unethical.

Also what I meant wasn’t that a whole industry such as online news should die, only change business model.