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If you turn off your ad blocker for SO, you get to see targeted job postings in your geographic and expertise area.

• astrodust 10y ago
  This is the way ads should be done. The only reason I run a blocker is because my tolerance for absolute bullshit ran out. No, there is no "one weird trick" to make hundreds of dollars a day and get rid of wrinkles at the same time. Just no. I've seen the quality of advertising plunge to depths I never imagined in the last five years. I yearn for the days of "Punch the Monkey" level dribble rather than the pure poison we see today. How is it that with more tracking, more compute power, more data than ever the ads are so appallingly stupid?
  • criddell 10y ago
    At this point, I really don't understand why people that know about ad-blockers don't use them. Do they also watch commercials when they are playing back a show they recorded on their DVR?
    • astrodust 10y ago
      I honestly want ads. I want them to be of things I could at least theoretically want to purchase. I've never seen an ad for a conference I should probably go to, or of a service that looks interesting, or of a product I want. Not in the last five years unless I've expressly visited their site and got tagged by Google, in which case all I see is ads for that. Instead I'm barraged with bullshit news stories, weight loss products that are total garbage, wrinkle removal creams of dubious origin, and "suggested links" which never, ever deliver on what they promise. The whole advertising industry is in shambles.