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In that situation? Optimally. It plays out optimally. If everyone suddenly installed and ran an aggressive ad-blocker, we could strangle all of the tracking
by beedogs 8y ago
In that situation?
Optimally.
It plays out optimally.
If everyone suddenly installed and ran an aggressive ad-blocker, we could strangle all of the tracking networks overnight and the Internet would become a noticeably nicer place.
People who refuse to concede that allowing ads is functionally the same thing as inviting third parties to monitor your browsing patterns and invade your privacy are being disingenuous.
- lwansbrough 8y agoExplain to me how some of the world's most popular services would operate without advertising revenue?
- fulafel 8y agoIt's easy to see how "the Internet would become a noticeably nicer place" could be true while "some of the world's [previously] most popular services would operate" could be false at the same time.
- beagle3 8y agoThat’s a cousin of the broken window fallacy, I am not sure it has a name, though. How would the horse merchants operate if everyone used cars? How would window fixers survive if there were no stones being thrown?
- beedogs 8y agoThey might not be able to. But popular doesn't mean necessary or good. We'll survive without Facebook or YouTube.