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2026-06-03 18:28 UTC
@kaye@cathode.church You are, as far as I know, pretty much correct.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/25/lying-spies/#spying-liars
"Hwang's book documents lots more ad-tech fraud that's every bit as audacious as the Wannamaker-era con-jobs. For example, there's the fact that when Procter and Gamble zeroed out its $200m/year surveillance advertising program, they saw a zero percent drop in sales because (to a first approximation) all $200m of that annual spend was disappearing down the fraud-hole."
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@confuseacat@mastodon.social 2026-06-04 05:11
@VoxSomniator@chitter.xyz @kaye@cathode.church I used to wonder how this crap is supposed to work, but Cory's main premise finally did it: it's a lie! They have absolutely no problems lying to us when they tell us how much they value our privacy and they also have no problems lying to their customers when they tell them how well all of this works.