If I place ads for torture and snuff videos and some people decide to click on them while other people don’t, is that a problem?
In that case I expect users to find viewing these ads incredibly unpleasant, on average, much more so than either the example I gave, or advertising in general?
(And almost all publishers would not be willing to work with an ad network that placed this kind of ad on their page)
You might find it unpleasant, but it’s it the job of Simurgh Followers to spread the Truth Of The Endbringers to everyone! Surely if people just watch enough of it, they will be converted.
The point is that the target gets to decide what’s acceptable and what isn’t, not the advertiser. The current system makes the advertiser the judge, and that’s not ok, even if we have managed to construct a sorta functional system that mostly takes care of the worst abuses.
There are a lot of decisions I can make to influence the ads I see. On facebook I can give quite detailed feedback. In the Google ecoystem I can tell google the interests for which I want to see ads. In many cases I can decide whether an app gets access to an identifier to give me customized ads or random ads.
In that case I expect users to find viewing these ads incredibly unpleasant, on average, much more so than either the example I gave, or advertising in general?
(And almost all publishers would not be willing to work with an ad network that placed this kind of ad on their page)
You might find it unpleasant, but it’s it the job of Simurgh Followers to spread the Truth Of The Endbringers to everyone! Surely if people just watch enough of it, they will be converted.
The point is that the target gets to decide what’s acceptable and what isn’t, not the advertiser. The current system makes the advertiser the judge, and that’s not ok, even if we have managed to construct a sorta functional system that mostly takes care of the worst abuses.
You mean the publisher, right?
Publisher, advertiser, the distinction does not matter. The point is that the target does not get to decide.
There are a lot of decisions I can make to influence the ads I see. On facebook I can give quite detailed feedback. In the Google ecoystem I can tell google the interests for which I want to see ads. In many cases I can decide whether an app gets access to an identifier to give me customized ads or random ads.