#enshittification #ads #telegram
I wonder how money-grubbing corporarions advertising on Telegram like the fact that their trash sometimes appears on channels like Unity of Fields?
Imagine a Tesla ad there showing up next to another report of cybertrucks being trashed at a Tesla dealership. Would be like an ad for United Healhcare on Youtube prerolled onto a Defend/Deny/Depose video.
Just saw an ad there for untrustable paid crypto. Any paid crypto author can make more money by selling backdoors to cops, basically acting as a double agent.
Telegram, I will not use you for posting media (e.g for a broadcast channel) because I do not post to ad supported servers. Anything I operate I would sooner shut down than monetize with ads.
When you run ads in places they are unwelcome, you expose your actual customers (users are PRODUCT) to boycotts and harassment.
You also show that you are in it for thr money, no wonder you agreed to cooperate with warrants. That decisiom BTW moved a lot of two-way and closed group comms to far safer Signal, which is always end to end encryptrd and has ensured they don't keep metadata records useful to cops.
Hopefully Signal would respond to a US demand for a backdoor the way they responded to the UK bill: zero compliance, remove servers and offices from rhe offending country if necesary. As one who burned a grand jury subpeona rather than snitch, I do in fact expect the same from any service that wants my trust. You need to be willing to fall on your sword like Lavabit did, not sell out your subscribers for 30 pieces of silver.
I wonder how money-grubbing corporarions advertising on Telegram like the fact that their trash sometimes appears on channels like Unity of Fields?
Imagine a Tesla ad there showing up next to another report of cybertrucks being trashed at a Tesla dealership. Would be like an ad for United Healhcare on Youtube prerolled onto a Defend/Deny/Depose video.
Just saw an ad there for untrustable paid crypto. Any paid crypto author can make more money by selling backdoors to cops, basically acting as a double agent.
Telegram, I will not use you for posting media (e.g for a broadcast channel) because I do not post to ad supported servers. Anything I operate I would sooner shut down than monetize with ads.
When you run ads in places they are unwelcome, you expose your actual customers (users are PRODUCT) to boycotts and harassment.
You also show that you are in it for thr money, no wonder you agreed to cooperate with warrants. That decisiom BTW moved a lot of two-way and closed group comms to far safer Signal, which is always end to end encryptrd and has ensured they don't keep metadata records useful to cops.
Hopefully Signal would respond to a US demand for a backdoor the way they responded to the UK bill: zero compliance, remove servers and offices from rhe offending country if necesary. As one who burned a grand jury subpeona rather than snitch, I do in fact expect the same from any service that wants my trust. You need to be willing to fall on your sword like Lavabit did, not sell out your subscribers for 30 pieces of silver.
