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Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet by Tim Hwang is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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From FSGO x Logic : a revealing examination of digital advertising and the internet's precarious foundation In Subprime Attention Crisis , Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process, he shows us how digital advertising—the beating heart of the internet—is at risk of collapsing, and that its potential demise bears an uncanny resemblance to the housing crisis of 2008. From the unreliability of advertising numbers and the unregulated automation of advertising bidding wars, to the simple fact that online ads mostly fail to work, Hwang demonstrates that while consumers' attention has never been more prized, the true value of that attention itself—much like subprime mortgages—is wildly misrepresented. And if online advertising goes belly-up, the internet—and its free services—will suddenly be accessible only to those who can afford it. Deeply researched, convincing, and alarming, Subprime Attention Crisis will change the way you look at the internet, and its precarious future. FSG Originals × Logic dissects the way technology functions in everyday lives. The titans of Silicon Valley, for all their utopian imaginings, never really had our best in

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Author
Tim Hwang
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published
2020
Language
EN
ISBN
9780374721244
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Business
Updated
2026-03-24

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