"Ad blockers are unethical—ads are how they pay to keep the lights on!”
Exactly. It's how THEY pay to keep the lights on. It's not how I pay for anything. I didn't agree to see ads, although I'm ok with some ads; what I definitely didn't do is agree to be tracked and profiled and have arbitrary third-party code running on my computer just so I could read this awful, pointless, SEO-ified shitfest of an article that doesn't come close to answering the question I was googling.
@maxleibman It’s easy, if they want me to look at their ads they will have to come up with ads that I want to look at…
So far they have failed to do that. Not my fault. 🤔
@fubaroque There was this period, three years ago, where all of an sudden ALL of the ads I saw everywhere were e-readers and eInk tablets and smart notebooks. Lasted for months. And I actually felt like, wow, THAT IS ME. Maybe that spooky tracking DOES have a point.
And then I guess that niche of gadgets went through a contraction and the marketing budgets went away; ever since then, whatever tracking is getting through is just leading to me seeing a bunch of random unappealing nonsense again.
@maxleibman Well it’s been a while since I was able to see if there is anything that interests me… that pesky ad blocker, eh? 🤣
On the plus side the web is a lot more responsive this way. Fixing THAT would also have to be part of getting me to want to.
But as it is they have the extra challenge of letting me know, if they ever did something. 🥳 You might say they spoiled the whole thing pretty thoroughly. 🤭
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