The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising

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[–]Mnemonic 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

There was a case against Facebook fo 'fake'-views on ads some time ago: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2019/10/07/facebook-ad-metrics-lawsuit-settlement.html (did a quick search)

In Europe we also have a house-bubble coming: House are way too expensive for starters and a lot of peeps need homes, now the homes are there only too expensive or you have to rent from someone who bought the house just to make a easy buck, while poorly maintaining it and terrorizing they loaners.

For ads you just need an image with a link embedded in it: then I'm fine with it and I won't block em. Local sites (like news, startups etc.) have this setup. No importing weird external js and you can EASILY count when someone clicks your ad with some php link in the ad (click it and use your heaven's gate visitor counter code). No need to track. These kind of ads are also local/related to the site's content, I don't need to know about a vibrator on sale in the USA...

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Interesting facebook case, thanks for the link.

Interesting you say Europe is facing a housing bubble too. I think it might just be global this time, especially with all the chinese real estate investments all over the globe. The whole global real-estate economy will probably crash in lockstep, it's much more intertwined than it was even in 2008.

[–]Mnemonic 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

In Europe it's based around wealthy peeps buying up houses and renting them out, just the prices of the rents are getting steeper and byuying a house is also getting steeper because peeps see money in buying a house and renting it out... a vicious capitalistic cycles around something that should be more-or-less ordain to have: housing. The crisis has reached a pint in where school-teachers can't afford to rent homes in cities because of their salary and the rent prices... really wicked. A couple early 30ies, dual-earnings can't buy a house in a city.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In Europe it's based around wealthy peeps buying up houses and renting them out

Yeah that's happening in the US too. Plus all the people just buying and holding it, with the expectation the value will increase. Treating housing like an investment commodity instead of a place for people to live, is the main problem