We should stop calling them “ad blockers”. If a site serves up a few banner ads as images like the old days, that’s fine. I don’t object to a site paying the bills, or seeing a banner ad.
They’re malware blockers and privacy protections. I don’t want a site popping up bullshit and trying to track me across the net. If that’s what a site is serving, it’s more than an ad, and I absolutely want to block it.
@jzb it's not like I'm interested in the random shit they are advertising to me anyways.
and in the ultra rare case were they advertise to me something I would hypothetically want, I've already acquired that thing way before ever seeing the ad because I saw it in the store and I bought it.
so it shouldn't really matter if I block the ads because at the end of the day they are pointless.
@jzb a more effective approach would be something like a search engine but for exclusively products...
never mind this bullshit with shoving random shit into people's faces, have them input a query and then do some natural language processing on it to determine which kinds of products they are after.
Joe Brockmeier (@jzb)
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