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STARRING MATT BERRY JEMAINE CLEMENT

They built a system that treats your attention as an extractable resource. The most radical thing you can do is refuse to be extracted. Close the tab. Use RSS. Let the bounce rate speak for itself. These are vanity metrics until enough people stop vanishing into them and then suddenly they become a crisis.

Wade Foster: the agent is actually choosing what products to buy on behalf of a human, and so you are no longer advertising to the human. You are trying to get the agent to say, pick me, pick me. Pick me.

I have an ever increasing feeling that something is off. I find myself feeling skeptical, cynical. Weary of whatever I encounter. Feeling like nothing is authentic or genuine. Because someone is always trying to sell me something. Around every corner an ad lurks. Waiting to capitalize off my attention. Capitalize off any genuine moment in real life or online. I think I have ad fatigue

It’s still unclear which exact refrigerators are getting the ad infestation, but Samsung’s current Family Hub-equipped lineup in the US starts at $1,800 and goes all the way up to $3,500. It doesn’t seem like users can entirely turn off ads, which is a shame. Disconnecting the fridge from the internet might stop the ads, but you will also inevitably lose out on several smart features you paid for. If you have a Samsung refrigerator with a door display, let us know in the comments how your experience has been with them, and how you feel about ads coming to them.

While Lopez, Fiat, the automotive firm’s PR people, and its Detroit ad agency would have consumers believe that the star deigned to return home to film a low-speed pilgrimage through the gritty streets of her hometown, she actually never set foot in the Bronx during the filming of the Fiat spots.

Because for now it’s insane. Presenting good articles in the hope of attracting readers, and then making the site do everything it can to shoo away those readers, is plumb nuts.

Around 3pm, when your energy and blood sugar are low, some say that Robert Goulet appears... and messes with your stuff.

"Feedster Inc. is embracing RSS advertising with plans to add sponsored links into its feeds of search results."

Okay. These mutant hamster dental disasters really disturb me. Do they disturb you?