So the CEO of online ads giant IAB made a pretty… remarkable speech, saying:
"These extremists (referring to privacy advocates) are political opportunists who’ve made it their mission to cripple the advertising industry and eliminate it from the American economy and culture."
And this, friends, is our mission statement RIGHT THERE.
@slothrop It really was a remarkable speech! Like they say, tirst they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they make ridiculously over-the-top-speeches at industry confabs, and then you win.
The only place I've found it so far is LinkedIn (bletch) ... do you know if it's anywere else?
@nemobis "Bots hadn’t been invented yet" in 1994? GEEZE THE IGNORANCE OF THIS ASSHOLE.
ELIZA was invented in 1966.
RFC 439: PARRY encounters the DOCTOR was 1973.
So-called "bots" have been online longer than HTTP.
The advertising industry is a leech.
Bill Hicks was too kind IMHO, people were still laughing at him. @jdp23
@nemobis @byterhymer TBH, I've been doing ad fraud mitigation for about a decade, and on the high end, the threat actors seem about on par with state-sponsored attackers.
They do some wild stuff.
(hope the necroposting isn't to annoying, and hey everyone install ublock origin!)
@ryanc I can easily believe it! As the "ad contrarian" says, with such amounts of money involved, it's fully expected.
(Not annoying at all, glad to hear from people in the field and that "older" posts are still discoverable.)
@nemobis I'm a little irritated that the linked post says "no possibility of consequences", when the bust I helped with put five people in jail, and several more are still wanted by Interpol but Russia won't extradite.
I suppose it's true if one doesn't mind living in Russia and never leaving.
Tyrone Slothrop
Jon (now at neuromatch.social)
Nemo_bis 🌈
グレェ「grey」
Ryan Castellucci (they/them) 
ndpi