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The irony here being, after I read this article, I'm now seeing ads for mattresses all over the web due to the embedded ads in the article. Marketing and adver

The irony here being, after I read this article, I'm now seeing ads for mattresses all over the web due to the embedded ads in the article. Marketing and advertising feels more like a virus than anything these days.

cag_ii 9y ago
Spot on, That's a great analogy!
fierro 9y ago
Viral videos are a thing of past. Check out this new viral ad!
Sohcahtoa82 9y ago
You don't use an ad blocker?
- sixdimensional 9y ago
  Ironically, at work untrusted extensions are blocked so can't install ad blockers.
alecco 9y ago
The only way is to blur your analytics. Move out of Google/Facebook. Install Ad Nauseam extension to not just block tracking but click on everything in the background. This will ruin the information they gather about you with noise. https://adnauseam.io/ https://adnauseam.io/
- manigandham 9y ago
  Not really, just use a real adblocker and move on with your life. Adtech has plenty of problems but this kind of silly abuse is easily caught and filtered out with no effort. You might even cause yourself more annoyance with fraud and spam prevention tools used with common services.
  - yipopov 9y ago
    >this kind of silly abuse is easily caught and filtered out with no effort Not an AdNauseum user myself, but how can we tell this isn't ad industry FUD? They would certainly have a vested interest in discouraging the practice. If nothing else at least AdNauseum can contribute somewhat to bandwidth and administrative costs.
    - manigandham 9y ago
      Because it’s one of the most data driven industries with petabytes generated everyday of actual user behavior so abnormal usage, especially wild clicks, are among the easiest to catch. Bandwidth costs would be a few extra bytes and you would likely only hurt yourself if using a metered connection. There are 0 extra admin costs. If you don’t like the ads then avoid the site, but if you must still access the content the use an ad blocker because loading ads just to falsely click on them only generates a stronger signal than usual.

cag_ii 9y ago

Spot on, That's a great analogy!

fierro 9y ago

Viral videos are a thing of past. Check out this new viral ad!

Sohcahtoa82 9y ago

You don't use an ad blocker?

sixdimensional 9y ago
Ironically, at work untrusted extensions are blocked so can't install ad blockers.

alecco 9y ago

The only way is to blur your analytics. Move out of Google/Facebook. Install Ad Nauseam extension to not just block tracking but click on everything in the background. This will ruin the information they gather about you with noise. https://adnauseam.io/ https://adnauseam.io/

manigandham 9y ago
Not really, just use a real adblocker and move on with your life. Adtech has plenty of problems but this kind of silly abuse is easily caught and filtered out with no effort. You might even cause yourself more annoyance with fraud and spam prevention tools used with common services.
- yipopov 9y ago
  >this kind of silly abuse is easily caught and filtered out with no effort Not an AdNauseum user myself, but how can we tell this isn't ad industry FUD? They would certainly have a vested interest in discouraging the practice. If nothing else at least AdNauseum can contribute somewhat to bandwidth and administrative costs.
  - manigandham 9y ago
    Because it’s one of the most data driven industries with petabytes generated everyday of actual user behavior so abnormal usage, especially wild clicks, are among the easiest to catch. Bandwidth costs would be a few extra bytes and you would likely only hurt yourself if using a metered connection. There are 0 extra admin costs. If you don’t like the ads then avoid the site, but if you must still access the content the use an ad blocker because loading ads just to falsely click on them only generates a stronger signal than usual.