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156: Jaron Lanier | Why You Should Unplug from Social Media for Good

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The Creepiness of Advertising

When you use this weird, indirect statistical technique, there's a certain creepiness to it because you can't know about it. In the old days when people used to get paranoid about advertising are there subliminal messages? This isn't calculated. This is actual reality. But online, you know, and this, once you're dealing with these manipulation algorithms, particularly from Google and Facebook, you're in this world where you don't know what's being done to you. Like right now, as we're talking, we know this is not an ad. And that is something. I mean,there's a, and nobody's ever cataloged all this. It's not transparent and

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