> I really don't mind them. I understood Stross's point when talking about ads isn't that ads are bad per se (although they're pretty bad - do you use an ad-bl

> I really don't mind them. I understood Stross's point when talking about ads isn't that ads are bad per se (although they're pretty bad - do you use an ad-blocker?) but that they come along with a lot of unwanted other stuff because the entities serving ads are set up as increasingly efficient advertising machines. For example, Facebook (by design) becoming ever-increasingly demanding of attention by producing an endless stream of new notifications and features to increase capture your time spent on the platform. This develops into an attritional battle with the user for supremacy rather than a subservient tool to improve their lives.