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 ermahgerd, amazeballs.  

Got a link?

@rysiek Someone put up the text on Google Docs:

https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vSVUwlTGIywViXvKoJ6A3q7tNsUO44XfBxP9kKv83Sm0--GiAo-rXjrWSzBsH3OwQ/pub

Apparently, Apple also is an anti-advertising extremist. That´s a bit of a pity. I feel much less avant-garde now.

It Starts Here_CEO Speech_finalfinal.docx

@slothrop Maybe not a welcome reply but: Apple's competitors are advertising-driven, but Apple uniquely because of their market positioning does not have to rely on advertising revenue to do business. Therefore they have an incentive to make advertising as universally unprofitable as possible, to deny competitors of funds that could be used to compete with them. So Apple *is* in fact strongly anti-advertising. This happens to align with consumer well-being, but that is basically a coincidence.

@mcc @slothrop Apple makes $4 billion in advertising per year, with plans to expand that to $10 billion per year

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/08/21/ads-coming-to-apple-maps-report/

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