“Scott Galloway calls the embrace of advertising "the original sin of the Internet," and I think he's right. The algorithms serve the business model, and because advertising on the Internet is both massive in scale and granular in precision, nobody has the same experience, commercial clicks driven by algorithmic matching become the goal, and bewild

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Kids will not believe me when I say this, but people didn’t always absorb their “content” by way of mysterious algorithmic black magic on endlessly-scrolling crack feeds. We used to type web addresses into our browsers, and actually visit our favorite sites. This, going to “www dot college shitpost dot com” or whatever, was itself considered a radi

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