The ad-driven world turns everything - *everything* - into a product. The art you made, the reporting you did, the selfie you took, the conversation you had with a friend, the time you spent reading this. Maybe you didn't see any money from any of those. Someone else did.
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Accelerationism is a garbage ideology for privileged people, but specifically accelerating the collapse of the online ad economy would be good for the world in the long term. Nobody would die and many social processes would become less toxic.
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There are lots of layers that already have the mechanisms available to destroy it, but choose not to because they're owned by parties with a vested interest in the online ad economy.
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Imagine what could happen if antitrust action forcibly split Android from Google.
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...and split Chrome and ChromeOS from Google.
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