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The advertising- and attention-based business model incentivizes companies to spy, track users, and keep them engaged, particularly children.

PrivacyEconomicsPublic SafetyApr 23, 2026score 0.282 posts · 0 replies across 2 instances
The thread discusses the need to address the advertising- and attention-based business model online, which is seen as a root cause of harm, particularly due to its incentives for spying, tracking, and keeping users, especially children, engaged. The discussion also mentions the importance of age verification to mitigate these issues.

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The advertising- and attention-based business model incentivizes companies to spy, track users, and keep them engaged, particularly children.
Parent: Digital Business ModelsEntity: Advertising-based online business modelsImpact: negativeDate: Apr 23, 2026Target: The advertising- and attention-based business model

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"...we need to tackle the real root cause of so much of the harm we see online: The advertising- and attention-based business model that gives almost every company an incentive to spy, to track, and to keep everyone, and especially kids, hooked on their products" https://proton.me/blog/keep-age-verification-from-killing-anonymity-online
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@[email protected]
"...we need to tackle the real root cause of so much of the harm we see online: The advertising- and attention-based business model that gives almost every company an incentive to spy, to track, and to keep everyone, and especially kids, hooked on their products" proton.me/blog/keep-ag... We must keep age verification ...
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