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		reddalo 20 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling What about just banning personalized advertising? Like: you can pay Google Maps to show your result as sponsored, but Google can only show it to either everybody or randomized people.

conductr 20 days ago [–]

They’re still incentivized to show you as much as possible. I don’t think this moves the needle much.

amelius 20 days ago | [–]

It will move the needle on user tracking, so it's still a useful suggestion.

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