A quotation from Banksy

The people who truly deface our neighbourhoods are the companies that scrawl their giant slogans across buildings and buses trying to make us feel inadequate unless we buy their stuff. They expect to be able to shout their message in your face from every available surface but you’re never allowed to answer back. Well, they started this fight and the wall is the weapon of choice to hit them back.

Banksy (b. 1974) England-based pseudonymous street artist, political activist, film director
Wall and Piece, Introduction (2005)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/banksy/76325/

#Trump's bullying is apparently working against #India.

#Reuters: "India will scrap a tax of 6% on digital #advertisements online, easing costs for U.S. tech giants such as #Google, #Meta and #Amazon as a way of soothing U.S. trade concerns."

#Europe must not be intimidated by bullies.

Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-proposes-remove-equalisation-levy-digital-services-government-source-says-2025-03-25/

Good gravy. Why does EVERYTHING have to have frikkin’ #advertisements !?!?!? https://indieweb.social/@jbz/114064176129006645

"The Irish part of @euractiv's parent company, #Mediahuis, has sued #X for #scam #advertisements, designed to appear as genuine news articles, alleging that they infringe the publishers' #trademarks and #copyrights and create reputational risk."

https://www.euractiv.com/section/tech/news/euractiv-owner-sues-x-in-ireland/

New #disneyplus, #Hulu, and #espnplus #TOS allows for #advertisements even on ad-free paid plans! The fuck!? What's even the point then? Enshittification marches ever onward.

From the email:

We are clarifying that, as we continue to increase the breadth and depth of the content we make available to you, circumstances may require that certain titles and types of content include ads, even in our 'no ads' or 'ad free' subscription tiers.

[...] For prior and existing subscribers, [...] will be effective beginning on March 24, 2025, unless you acknowledge an in-app notice of these changes earlier.

For new subscribers, they're already in effect.

“Currently, #Internet companies collect #data about where we go #online and use this data to present us with #ads (#advertisements) or other #content we may be interested in. Dr. #YaqubChaudhary and Dr #JonniePenn, working out of #Cambridge’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence #LCFI, have identified startling new ways #AI is seeking to control our #DecisionMaking at the earliest possible steps.”

Neat and tidy. Finally a use for AI as a power guzzling bullshit machine for advertising. Don’t get, “grabbed by your Norbots”

#AI / #IntentionEconomy / #Techweenies <https://thedebrief.org/tech-companies-are-seeking-to-develop-ai-that-excels-at-flattering-and-manipulating-us/>

**Google allows advertisers to target the sensitive informational queries of cancer patients**

_"Advertisers mimicked the sensitive queries of cancer patients to target them with their marketing using Google’s keyword-matching feature. In 2023, 20,035 unique keywords emulated Google searches seeking information on cancer prognosis, alternative treatments, accessing treatment, treatment options, diagnosis, specific cancers, and late-stage cancer._

_The Google tools used by alternative cancer clinics exploit users’ searches for information and give prominence to websites promoting treatment unsupported by scientific evidence."_

Zenone, M., Marcon, A., Kenworthy, N., van Schalkwyk, M., Caulfield, T., Hartwell, G., & Maani, N. (2024). Google allows advertisers to target the sensitive informational queries of cancer patients. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-170

**Advertising doesn't work the way you think it does**

Jeffrey Kaplan

_"This is a video lecture in which I argue that association ads are best explained by what I call the social connotation theory, rather than the emotional inception theory."_

#Video length: twenty-six minutes and twenty-four seconds.

https://youtu.be/GFYasDoJ-98

#Advertisements #Psychology #Philosophy @psychology @philosophy

LifeSavers: The sweetest dream in the world, 1949 ad.
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#lifesavers #Advertisements #Candy #Retro #Vintage #Cartoons #Illustration #artwork

→ This Is Exactly How an Elon Musk-Funded PAC Is Microtargeting Muslims and Jews With Opposing Messages
https://www.404media.co/this-is-exactly-how-an-elon-musk-funded-pac-is-microtargeting-muslims-and-jews-with-opposing-messages/

“An Elon Musk-funded group called Future Coalition PAC is targeting Muslim voters in Michigan and Jewish voters in Pennsylvania with diametrically opposed #political #advertisements about Kamala #Harris.”

“Meanwhile, a related PAC also funded by #Musk is microtargeting likely #Black voters on #Snapchat […]”

1969

The image is a snapshot of an advertisement featuring men and women dressed in fashionable attire from the late 1960s, suggesting it may be promoting clothing or accessories.
Tags: vintage fashion, advertisements, autumn wardrobe, style trends

https://nocontext.loener.nl/fullpage/09-September1969-Page-286.png

Great job, @noybeu !

The #CJEU decided today that #Meta has to massively limit the use of personal data for online #advertisements. Secondly, it has to limit the use of publicly available personal data to the originally intended purposes for publication.
#surveiallancecapitalism #surveillanceAds
https://noyb.eu/en/cjeu-meta-must-minimise-use-personal-data-ads

Seidel and Naumann sewing machines advertisement, 1920s