considering that "web 2.0" is widely accepted to be "the social web", where the focus was on user contribution and interoperability... no.

maybe i'm getting my html versions mixed up with my buzzwords

I have a personal rule to never buy from brands that harass me by spamming annoying ads left and right.

Isn’t ad blocking, as the industry magazine AdAge has called it, “robbery, plain and simple”?

No. Find a way to make money that doesn't require showing ads online if you have a problem with it.

It's my computer isn't it? I can discard packets I don't care to receive

LOL That is also appropriate but I meant the one where he chucks his computer in the garbage.

It would be much harder to block ads if they were more like newspapers and just a part of the page you were viewing, instead of imported from a different source.

But in order to do that the site themselves would be responsible for the ads they display instead of blaming their ad service, and they would lose out on all their tracking data.

So fuck em.

I remember the add that made me install my first add blocker. It stated playing the sound of knocking on glass and a voice going "Hey You!". With a looped videoof some guy waving at me.

I have a similar story. People were fine with ads until they got too obnoxious and intrusive, and now the people making the obnoxious intrusive ads are crying that people are blocking them.

living adfree is so great. sometimes it's jarring to hear an ad in the wild, but it's a nice reminder of how much better I'm living

Ad-blocking is as legal as a lock on the door.

I can't believe people actually pay for branded clothing. I avoid branded clothing like the plague. If companies like Nike actually want someone to walk around plastered with their brand on them they should be paying them.

But companies have convinced people to pay enormous amounts of money to wear their brand as a "style" or as "self-expression". Just wow.

I was watching some TV with friend. Show on prime and on Hulu.

Both had ads. Granted they were far less than actual television is but I do not miss ads at all. They really spoil the experience. Especially for a paid service.

"It's my ccomputer" has already been mentioned, but it's my bandwidth and my home network too. Ads can stay off it.

Leave my star trek branded clothing alone, I want a better future!

Just because you didn't actually share it:

I do not understand how anyone uses mobile apps with ads. thats just so dystopian to me

Advertising needs to become as socially acceptable as smoking.

It arbitrary pollutes any environment it’s conducted in, and causes secondary harms to non-participants by incentivising insecure hoarding of private information with the intent to better target individuals.

Star Trek branded clothing excluded.

I used ad blocker but I cannot imagine a world without ads. What does discoverablity look like in a world without ads?

I think ads have the same issue as content recommendation algo, that being that they're bad but useful.

@Auth @floofloof
IMHO: Advertisment is another word for recommendation. While advertisment is seen as bad a recomendation isn't.

So what advertisment never makde happen is making themself usefull to the consumer. Most consumer want maybe a !!! usefull recommendation !!! but not someone trying to force you to buy a certain product.

So what was the time before ads ... it never existet ... even before tv radio had advertisment. Even back in this day people hated the advertisment and did music recordings cutting the advertisment and talking out.

Some old people might remember press record ... press stop ... rewind a little bit ... and all of this.

The alternative was to pay alot of money for music ...