Captive Mood: how Big Tech manipulates your emotions to serve advertisers

You can’t fully protect yourself unless you go back to your 1997 Nokia or don’t use the internet. Once you go online, nothing is private. Apart from minimising the harm by making informed clicks and try your best to understand what you give informed consent to for the sites you visit. An almost impossible task, especially if you are not a lawyer specialising in privacy.

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Captive Mood: how Big Tech manipulates your emotions to serve advertisers Michael  West Media 
By Manal al-Sharif By Manal al-Sharif| August 25, 2021  

The digital advertising platforms don’t just want our data. They also want us to spend our lives online, an “addiction” created for the primary purpose of serving advertisers. Manal al-Sharif reports on the pitfalls of “digital dictatorship” in this latest of her Tech4Evil series.

According to a2016 study, we touch our phones around 2617 times a day, whileanothershowed that 79 percent of phone owners check their device within 15 minutes of waking up. Our attention has been hijacked so much that one out of every four car accidents in the United States is believed to be caused by texting and driving.

As a result, we have shorter attention spans, take our phones everywhere, and become anxious when it’s out of sight.

According to…

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