If large websites respected our choices regarding ads (DNT is a decade old, people!) and served contextual ads when asked to not track, we would not need to use #AdBlockers.

Instead, for over a decade now web publishing industry's been hell bent on screwing readers over, ignoring clearly stated preferences, misrepresenting what they do with the data, and using dark patterns to maliciously mis-implement legal requirements when forced to do so.

Stop this crap and I might disable my AdBlocker.

@rysiek There is also a strong argument to be made that advertisements are fucking stupid and nobody buys shit based on them anymore... I buy shit when I need it, not when an advert tells me to, and usually, what makes me want to buy something is the company that's selling it knowing everything about it, and not treating the customer like an idiot. Something most companies today fail miserably at...
@cody absolutely. The only real benefactors of the current system are the ad networks, mostly Google.