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TV has become unwatchable in the later years, so here I would expect the advertising driven model to fail at some point. The Internet has the benefit of adblocks, but still the content is saturated by ads. It stands to reason that at some point the users/customers will be pushed too far and there will be a backlash.
One new technique that's notably missing, and egregiously abusable, is browser notifications. Several times a day now I'll go to a web site that immediately pops up a browser-native non-modal notification asking for permission to use the browser's built-in notifications system.
Sadly hated != ineffective, so they're here to stay
I ran into this dreck yesterday: https://www.inc.com/magazine/20091101/does-slow-growth-equal... If anyone can find the actual article, let me know.
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I ran into this dreck yesterday: https://www.inc.com/magazine/20091101/does-slow-growth-equal... If anyone can find the actual article, let me know.
Is there an article? I couldn't find it, maybe the page is outdated (2009) and it's a bug?
However I must wonder that they seem to skip an elephant in the room: Malvertising and Fraud. That is: Ads that either try to install malware on your system or that try to deceive you into buying something that isn't really what it seems to be. I'm pretty sure nobody likes that, yet both are common enough.
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