According to The Guardian, one of world’s biggest advertisers — Unilever — says it will avoid platforms that ‘create division’. It further threatens to take its ad purchases off Facebook and Google, if they cannot reign in hate and protect children. Their chief marketing officer says their online spending sometimes is "little better than a swamp in terms of its transparency".
If this finally is it, I say good riddance to surveillance capitalism.
(Score: 3, Informative) by VLM on Tuesday February 13 2018, @12:53PM
I would not disagree but would toss out another suggestion that there's entire classes of products that seem to only be sold to people on various web discussion board technologies, so you can expect astroturfing and slashvertisement type stuff to increase.
For example does anyone buy a iopteron astrophotography camera mount other than via discovering it from online astrophotography discussions (not traditional social media of my auntie and my coworker, but "legacy" hobby discussion sites)