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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jan 15

    Aral Balkan Retweeted Rob Leathern

    A. Facebook’s business is adtech, not advertising; let’s not confuse the two. Adtech is based on surveillance. Advertising doesn’t have to be. B. You can’t fix adtech, it is unethical by design. You can only regulate it, like the tobacco industry. #SurveillanceCapitalismhttps://twitter.com/robleathern/status/952770830223556608 …

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    Rob LeathernVerified account @robleathern
    The 🛠 and ⚙️ are in my Twitter name because improving/fixing advertising is very much a work in progress, and I would love your advice, complaints, suggestions, questions and feedback!
    10:00 AM - 15 Jan 2018
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      1. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jan 15

        If you want to help fix the adtech problem, start by not working for adtech. #SurveillanceCapitalism

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      2. Bert vd Lingen‏ @BertvdLingen Jan 15
        Replying to @aral @lalalalinder

        Like regulating the tabacco industry worked out well

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jan 15
        Replying to @BertvdLingen @lalalalinder

        Well, let’s put it this way: no top student graduates university hoping they’ll work at Philip Morris and no doctors appear in tobacco ads these days. And in most civilised areas, smoking is forbidden in public places. A far cry from the Madmen era.

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      1. Bernadette Keefe MD‏ @nxtstop1 Jan 15
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        @judywawira @robleathern Ty, the key point. Surveillance is the core modus operandi. #adtech #FB

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      1. jeroen smeets‏ @jeroensmeets Jan 16
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        C. screen readers read your icons out loud, so these icons are unhelpful.

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      1. Goran‏ @gpeuc Jan 15
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        Could main manufacturers (primarily Apple, since Google is evil) add layers into iOS/MacOS that anonymise the data before it leaves the phone? So it’s Facebook App → iOS Anon Service → Internet. Or something in that area. The way iOS enforces “track only when using”.

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