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Think about the products you see announced on this very site. Most of those people are writing helpful blog posts and using them to promote an ebook or some typ
by johnward 11y ago
Think about the products you see announced on this very site. Most of those people are writing helpful blog posts and using them to promote an ebook or some type of product. Technically those posts are advertisements or marketing materials. How would you ban those? Would you even want to ban those if they are actually useful to people?
HN itself is one big advertising platform to promote Y Combinator Startups.
- TheLoneWolfling 11y agoI, personally, don't care about blocking ads. I wish to block a few things, and ads tend to fall under these categories. If ads did not fall under these categories, I wouldn't mind them: -I wish to minimize my attack surface. -I wish to minimize resource consumption. -I wish to use my display to see the content I am focused on. -I wish to not worry about distracting / annoying / being judged by others. -I wish to not be tracked - preferably not by the site I am visiting, and definitely not by random third parties, and certainly not by random third parties in countries with questionable laws. Unfortunately, most ads seem to fall under all of these categories.