Why It's OK to Block Ads (2015)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/560483
"It's my ccomputer" has already been mentioned, but it's my bandwidth and my home network too. Ads can stay off it.
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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.
Leave my star trek branded clothing alone, I want a better future!
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LOL That is also appropriate but I meant the one where he chucks his computer in the garbage.
Just because you didn't actually share it:
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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
I do not understand how anyone uses mobile apps with ads. thats just so dystopian to me
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/560483
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.
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Leave my star trek branded clothing alone, I want a better future!
Star Trek branded clothing excluded.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/560483
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.
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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 ...
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@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 ...
Ads try to make useful recommendations thats why google puts so much effort into trying to figure out who you are. Companies today can suggest their products to exactly who they think would most want them. But this comes with the downsides of user privacy.
If we had no ads then companies would pretend to be real people and make product suggestions. We can never escape it.
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Just because you didn't actually share it:
You are a better person than I.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/560483
Maladvertising and scams just make that a surefire thing, especially since there's a chance that just loading an ad could infect your machine.
And for less tech-savvy family members, it cuts down on the risk of them falling for scams or suchlike.
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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.
I’d personally start with billboards but instead now the billboards are screens too, not adjusted for night time to avoid distracting or blinding drivers and zero consideration for neighbors that have their backyards illuminated.
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You know, it's pretty easy to tell you weren't old enough to see the original Internet when you say something like that, because this was what it was like:
LoL, that wasn't the original internet. That was years after the internet had been around. <joke here about these kids needing to get off my lawn>
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maybe i'm getting my html versions mixed up with my buzzwords
yeah i think that's about the same time. there are so many versions at the same time that it gets confusing
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"some". more like 99.9999999% of them
Accurate. I was trying to leave room so not to say all of them but I see you left just enough and that works too.
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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.
Yeah. I don't have a contract with the site, agreeing to pay them in any way, shape or form. They voluntarily show me their content, but that does not obligate me to also accept their ads.
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The same reason why it is ok to not eat shit.
Right? These companies act like they are selling food and we are stealing it.
In reality, they put a big "free beer" sign up, we go and happily accept the beer, and then they act outraged that we refuse when they try to piss in the mug after handing it to us.
