Can't understand the "Web Environment Integrity" thing in isloation, it's part of a full stack

* in-browser ad features ("Privacy Sandbox")

* hiding from the advertiser where the ad ran ("Performance Max")

* working with sites that advertisers would not choose to sponsor ("confidential" entries in sellers.json)

Yes, it's a surveillance dystopia, but not as you might imagine them from fiction - more of a #shortTermism and #scamCulture thing. #WEI

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/google-lawsuit-inflating-video-ad-metrics-1235546090/

@RichPuchalsky
"They certainly know now, and they don't behave any differently."

I'm reminded of a point in the linked article, where a guy hired specifically to spearhead ethical investing is met with resistance from fund managers in his own company. The managers' excuse: Their duty to investors is to maximize this quarter's profits above all else. Can barely consider the consequences even 6 months in the future.

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/20/1144555936/esg-impact-investing-sustainability-blackrock-larry-fink

#Climate #Economics #ShortTermism

@mathew1927 @zerocovid

#shorttermism
#collapse

It's the extreme, and I do mean extreme, short-termism which is destroying society.

Goldman Sachs's Gus Levy wrote about "long term greed". That seems to be in very short supply right now, as every CEO sets fire to his seed corn for a dollar today.

The airlines actually started seeing damage from their "let it rip" policies within *weeks*, before the end of the *quarter*, but they didn't think that far ahead

#keirstarmer’s plans are welcomed. About time to move away from the #tory #shorttermism and #opportunistic plans. We need a professional and serious approach to our political problems the (tories) have generated during these last 12 years.