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Ad companies are the ones destroying civilization
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this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2026
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I was thinking about this earlier today.
It’s amazing to me that in my lifetime, ads went from a thing that companies got to do as an extra once they had succes all the way to a thing that runs everything everywhere.
Nowadays if you don’t have ads in some form abusing the algorithm (which is in itself designed to be abused) then you get nowhere.
(Also holy shit this has a lot of comments, seems like people have this on their liver somewhat)
Interesting, I've never heard that phrase. Are you a native English speaker, or was that brought through another language? I'm reminded of how in Farsi, the liver is used in phrases that most other languages don't use it for. Like, instead of calling someone you love your 'heart", you call them your "liver," but it carries the same intent.
Oh yes, I hadn’t thought about that! Having something on your liver is an expression that’s native to the Dutch language (afaik).
Meaning something that’s annoying, bothering you, gnawing at your conscience, pissing you off,…