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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 15 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

No. If you are actively searching for something, and go to a specific place that sells that thing. It is not advertising, the active party is you not them.

The problem is when the active party is the ad-networks, the trackers, the junk pushers.

If I go to a review site, for say lawn mowers, and they say hey brand 1 is great, but brand 2 is better because of 'reasons'; I am active, engaging in the process. If however, I then go to a site that is about tigers, and brand 3 pushes their ad to intrude on the tiger info....this (in my opinion) is a major intrusion into my private space.

[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 1 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Would you ban television commercials? Sponsored products unrelated to a YouTube video's content?

I completely agree with you. So tired of pushed garbage ads. There's just a gray area so the language of a hypothetical "law" would have to carefully considered.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Television ads are a grey area, they don't tend to track you and follow you around in a creepy way.

Sponsored content, is in my opinion very similar to TV ads, the sponsor is the same for all viewer of the vid in a similar way to TV.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 3 hours ago

They didn't track before the introduction of cable boxes with phone-home capabilities, at any rate.