#RoyThomasBaker didn't stifle the idiosyncracies of weirdo bands like Devo and The Cars. He didn't smooth out the rough edges. He just made them... I don't know, shinier? Whatever he did, it always sounded fantastic. So long, #RTB, and thank you for the music 
#Music #RockAndRoll #ClassicRock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0anMOaCH1o
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#Schibsted argues they cannot rely on contextual ads "as long as advertisers don't pay the same money for them as they do for personalised ads."
Really, this is why banning #TrackingAds is so powerful a solution because it would take the harmful #RTB business model off the market.
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Glad to see #Rob from #FPF brings up #Kobler's #contextualads solution as a viable alternative to #RTB and #SurveillanceAdvertising.
Also makes a super important point about mandatory #DoNotTrack signals in browsers.
IMO this is what #Mozilla should be working towards, not making #Firefox as a data collection platform.
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Great opening by Svea pointing at how #PayOrOK models make #privacy a privilege for those who can afford to pay.
She rightly slams #RealTimeBidding #RTB as a #nationalsecurity risk on top of a #privacy violation and calls out the @EUCommission's push for "#simplification" that threatens achievements like #GDPR.
Important #UK #petition to sign: "Ban behavioural data extraction for advertising"
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/713456
If you are a UK citizen or UK resident PLEASE SIGN THIS 
We need the #government to take this seriously so creeps like this #databroker don't get more data:
https://gizmodo.com/data-broker-brags-about-having-highly-detailed-personal-information-on-nearly-all-internet-users-2000575762
And #democracy is undermined by the #microtargeting from #socialmedia - #Trump /Brexit/Romania etc
Petitions - UK Government and ParliamentPetition: Ban behavioural data extraction for advertisingBan the extraction of peoples behavioural data for advertising purposes. This extraction can happen on most internet-connected devices 24/7. Data is sold through Real Time Bidding (RTB) system which is easily accessible and data may be de-anonymised. We think fines show GDPR may not be adhered to.
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In 2025 #microtargeting and #personalisedads have been so successful it's less 'divide and conquer' and now more like 'ATOMISE AND CONQUER' 
#surveillancecapitalism #threattodemocracy #rtb
We are isolated and weak in our information bubbles. No shared reality = no coordinated fight back. Are you going to let that happen?
Let's hope the orgs can rally us: @eff @noybeu @privacyint @corporateeurope @edri #ThePeopleVsBigTech
Keep at 'em @noybeu! These apps need to be controlled. The trade in personal #metadata to #databrokers is outrageous. The #RTB system should be regulated and #behaviouraladvertising banned.
https://noyb.eu/en/wetteronline-sees-disproportionate-effort-complying-gdpr
"Ingo Dachwitz, journalist at netzpolitik.org: "Our Databroker Files research shows that the trading of our data is COMPLETELY OUT OF CONTROL. No one can keep track where the data that smartphone apps supposedly collect for advertising ends up."
noyb.euWetterOnline sees "disproportionate effort" in complying with the GDPRWetterOnline shares the personal data of its users with more than 800 third-party companies for advertising purposes
We know about the #Trump campaign using #CambridgeAnalytica to swing the 2016 election, and Russia getting involved, but gun associations? That's new to me.
https://www.propublica.org/article/guns-lobbying-cambridge-analytica-nssf-privacy-elections
3rd party vested interests providing citizen private data to dodgy firms to swing elections is a pretty dark use of #microtargeting. On a par (nearly) with what the #UniversityOfPhoenix was caught doing 
ProPublicaGun Lobbyists and Cambridge Analytica Weaponized Gun Owners’ Private Details for Political Gain
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Great exerpt about the #RTB system (advertising bidstream data) from p120 of Privacy Is Power, by Carissa Veliz:
If #trump backtracks on the #tiktok ban, it will be because "In December Trump said he had a "warm spot" for the app as it helped him with young voters in the 2024 election."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyeer3qp12o
It is sad that morons keep using these kind of apps - the ones with #algorithms that allow #microtargeting of ads. And guess what: aggressive misinformation campaigns to win elections also count as ads!
The root cause is #surveillancecapitalism and the #bidsteam behavioural data in the #RTB system
www.bbc.comTikTok says it will 'go dark' in ban if US government does not interveneThe Supreme Court earlier upheld a law that would ban the video app in the US unless its Chinese parent-company sells it.
THIS is why the #SurveillanceAdvertising data trade needs to be banned.
The #EUcommission itself couldn't resist using it to push an agenda via #X.
https://noyb.eu/en/political-microtargeting-eu-commission-illegal
I respect the EU - they are doing more than others to impose #regulation on #bigtech - so this is sad news.
But it shows that the temptation shouldn't be there...
noyb.euPolitical Microtargeting by EU Commission illegalEDPS issues decision finding that the European Commission has illegally targeted advertisment on citizens.
"Michael Heseltine described the advent of Right To Buy as "laying the foundations of one of the most important social revolutions of the century", but was selling off council houses more cheaply than new ones could be built simply laying the foundations of a housing crisis?"
BBC NewsRight To Buy: What's wrong with letting people buy council houses?The Labour government is expected to make major changes to the Right To Buy scheme launched in the 1980s.