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Out of curiosity do you work in advertising tech or marketing? They are about the only people I've ever seen express this view seriously.
by throwaway2048 9y ago
Out of curiosity do you work in advertising tech or marketing?
They are about the only people I've ever seen express this view seriously.
- oh_sigh 9y agoNope - I am a developer working on a consumer oriented application with no advertisements. I'm not trying to say that all ads give you that benefit - most are just a waste of screen space, compute and bandwidth.
- majewsky 9y agoEven if I agreed that some ads have benefit, the cost-benefit analysis (with costs including screen space, compute, bandwidth and the malware threat) still looks grim enough to justify adblocking IMO.