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US says troops were targeted with location data, as senator warns ad industry is a ‘national security threat’ (www.wyden.senate.gov)
submitted 21 hours ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1157779/us-says-troops-were-targeted-with-location-data-as-senator-warns-ad-industry-is-a-nation

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[–] dan1101@lemmy.world -3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

OTOH, serving content is not free and something needs to pay the hosting/publishing bills.

The problem IMO is invasive ad serving tech and deceptive ads, which are often both uncurated and deceptive.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 8 points 12 hours ago

Sure, serving content isn’t free. Maybe we don’t need to serve so much damn content then.