If I see your Twitter ad, I block you. No exceptions. (1/4)
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When junk I didn't ask for appears in my feed, that costs attention.
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Sometimes it's funny, & given infinite attention to spend might be ok, but it cuts into attention I was trying to spend on something else.
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For the advertiser, they spent money wasting my attention and at best got nothing for it.
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More likely, they annoyed me and made me less likely to buy or recommend their products.
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Everyone loses.
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These things are true, but I care about two other things even more:
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1. Funding a business with advertising gives it perverse incentives. The most obvious is the drive to sell more and more advertising - \
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thus clickbait, crowding out actual content with ads, and feeding more and more subscriber data back to the ad agencies. \
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