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So I got my start in ad based websites. If it wasn't for ads, I would have never really gotten into what we do. I'd have done something away from the internet b
by Killswitch 11y ago
So I got my start in ad based websites. If it wasn't for ads, I would have never really gotten into what we do. I'd have done something away from the internet because I never grew up with a computer and wasn't fascinated by them as a young child.
So because of that, I had always been in favor of ads. Not as in I'd plaster my site with ads, but if a site displayed ads, I would endure them because if I wanted the content that's the trade off. Otherwise I could find similar content somewhere else.
Then The Verge's article about slow browsing came about, and the retorting articles about things and I realized ads have gone way to fucking far.
17 years I have been online. 17 years I had never installed an ad blocking plugin or anything. Last month I installed uBlock Origin and turned it into blacklist mode.
I still feel sites who have ads in place that aren't intrusive and annoying deserve to be displayed, but sites like The Verge, or CNN or anything like that which blast you with 300 requests where 90% of them are ads. Or sites where ads become more important than the content; These sites get instant ad blocking enabled for them.
It's time to take a step back.
- stevesearer 11y agoSomeone should make a list of websites that have both great content as well as good advertising practices and have it sorted by the topics: general interest, technology, cooking, etc...
- jarek 11y agoSomeone needs to invent and found something like a Pinterest but for text. Might not need that much VC founding and the scaling possibilities are endless, lots of content on the web to curate! Could call it a web directory.
- munin 11y ago> So I got my start in ad based websites. If it wasn't for ads, I would have never really gotten into what we do. I got my start in computer crime (chasing the crimes that others committed) and if it wasn't for others committing computer crime, I would never have gotten into what we do. Should I be in favor of other people committing computer crime?
- Killswitch 11y agoExcept one is illegal and one isn't. I'll let you figure out what's wrong with your argument.
- ionised 11y agoLegality is unfortunately not an indication of something being right or desirable.
- Killswitch 11y agoNo, but comparing apples and oranges.