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I don't want ad companies tracking me. Ad companies have roundly demonstrated that I can no longer trust them to show me ads without tracking. Sorry, but I'm

I don't want ad companies tracking me. Ad companies have roundly demonstrated that I can no longer trust them to show me ads without tracking. Sorry, but I'm not switching off that blocker. Maybe if the history of the internet had taken a different course. But now it's too late -- the well's been poisoned, and advertisers and publishers have only themselves to blame. Pointing the finger at the users doesn't do anything to repair this lost trust. Ad-blocking, insofar as it contributes to the decimation of advertising revenues, will hasten this exodus to the platforms. And there is no way to block the ads shown to you by Facebook or Google or Twitter in their own apps, especially not on mobile. Aside: There absolutely are ways to block ads within apps. There are already Android apps that accomplish this to various extents, and I'm sure they'll only get more sophisticated to match any migration of users to mobile.

rhizome 11y ago
One thing Doc Searls points out is how direct marketing stole online advertising from Madison Ave. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2015/09/08/if-marketing-listened-to-markets-theyd-hear-what-ad-blocking-is-telling-them/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2015/09/08/if-marketing-lis...
a_e_k 11y ago
Tracking is one thing that bothers me. The other are video ads that hijack my speakers and sap my bandwidth, pop over ads that hijack my screen focus, etc. Those are where I draw the line. I don't use explicit ad blockers, but I do run with NoScript and Cookie Controller. Simple, well-behaved banner and sidebar ads are fine. Overly aggressive ads get killed.
calgoo 11y ago
I do DNS Hijacking on my own network for known trackers and ad networks. On my mobile devices i have an active connection home to filter the data. It kinda works... Im now looking at building the DNS filter into an app that i can load on a raspPI or a old laptop to handle all blocking and integration with addBlock lists.

rhizome 11y ago

One thing Doc Searls points out is how direct marketing stole online advertising from Madison Ave. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2015/09/08/if-marketing-listened-to-markets-theyd-hear-what-ad-blocking-is-telling-them/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2015/09/08/if-marketing-lis...

a_e_k 11y ago

Tracking is one thing that bothers me. The other are video ads that hijack my speakers and sap my bandwidth, pop over ads that hijack my screen focus, etc. Those are where I draw the line. I don't use explicit ad blockers, but I do run with NoScript and Cookie Controller. Simple, well-behaved banner and sidebar ads are fine. Overly aggressive ads get killed.

calgoo 11y ago

I do DNS Hijacking on my own network for known trackers and ad networks. On my mobile devices i have an active connection home to filter the data. It kinda works... Im now looking at building the DNS filter into an app that i can load on a raspPI or a old laptop to handle all blocking and integration with addBlock lists.