Pretend to act, or look and feel, like a trusted entity — like your own device or browser, or the website itself. These are deceptive tactics, intended to conf

Pretend to act, or look and feel, like a trusted entity — like your own device or browser, or the website itself. These are deceptive tactics, intended to confuse and trick. What you describe is annoying and perhaps exploitative of humans desires, but in the end no different from normal advertising and far less evil than the ads described in the quote above. You want a full ad-blocker. Perhaps you're already using one and want to justify it.