Max Leibman has moved!Jul 21, 2023

"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.

#enshittification

Show threadLinda van der Pal
@maxleibman I wouldn't mind adds so much if they weren't flashing all over the place, hogging bandwidth with pointless movies and rendered the website near unusable...
Jul 22, 2023 at 3:48pmWeb
Show threademptyotherJul 22, 2023

@lvdpal @maxleibman Or tried to scam people. And that the website owner takes no responsibility for what kinda ads it show. And neither does the ad company sometimes.

There is no adblocker that can block an ad that is part of the content (as youtube shows are often doing now). But the content owner will then have to be responsible for what they are advertising for.