Tag: ads

  • Advertising Scams With MrBeast and Cory Doctorow

    Advertising Scams With MrBeast and Cory Doctorow

    Every digital advertising platform wants more revenue and less expense. Policing ad quality is an expense, whereas advertising, whether the purpose is legitimate or not, generates revenue. Only when the economic incentives shift due to public outrage, demands from large advertisers or investor pressure will the companies in a position to stop advertisements of scams do something.

  • Why Google Search Sucks And A Tribute To Neil Gaiman

    Why Google Search Sucks And A Tribute To Neil Gaiman

    Google grants access to information kings didn’t have 50 years before. I have consumed so much content, books, podcasts, movies, articles, songs, and possibly the Ph.D. thesis of a woman from Chesapeake. I cannot remember it all. Like most, I’ll occasionally use Google to find a specific but only half-recalled crumb of content. Increasingly I […]

  • Online Gurus Are Beyond Parody

    Online Gurus Are Beyond Parody

    I used to make videos mocking the folks you see in ads on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, etc. selling you some form of info product. I had to stop, because, while standing in front of a U-Haul place and talking about the haters who will claim I the great, “Dutch Ovens” don’t own all these trucks, […]