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Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just a little bit more privacy invasion. C'mon, juuuust a little.. 'till you no longer notice.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

by making the iphone. ads were not the primary source of revenue for applications before that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Again, what are you basing that on? Many websites, games, etc. that had traditionally only been accessible on a desktop/laptop were already primarily using ads for monetization at that point (I should know, I was using a lot of them). Blaming Apple for simply making the first handheld devices capable of running similar software makes absolutely zero sense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

adware was definitely not the norm before smartphones. I'm not talking about websites, I'm talking about applications. when were games using ads for monetization?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"I blame RCA for television ads. If they hadn't made the first mass-market television set, we wouldn't have TV ads interrupting my morning cartoons!"

that's how you sound rn

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

except that's a dumb comparison. television sets did not also create the environment for broadcasting and set the main monetization model. Apple fucking did. they didn't just make the fucking phone, they created the fucking system, the fucking app store, and built-in fucking ad delivery system for the fucking apps. jobs boasted about it in the keynotes.

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