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Says an author on a site full of ads that even bypass my adblock.
by vasilakisfil 9y ago
Says an author on a site full of ads that even bypass my adblock.
- osrec 9y agoThe mobile experience wasn't actually all that bad...
- yoz-y 9y agoI dunno the ads do not seem out of place and even without an adblocker there are only a few of them. Ghostery did catch some trackers though, including Facebook's.
- elorant 9y agoSure, but their ads aren't tailor made to each user. We all see the same ones, one about Mailchimp and another for a vodka. Which means no profiling so there's no violation of users' privacy.
- closed 9y agoI don't know if seeing untargeted ads necessarily means a site is not profiling you.
- icebraining 9y agoIt doesn't; they're using Google Analytics, plus loading some crap from Facebook itself.
- wired_devil 9y agoThese ads are not intrusive. You can read the article perfectly. They are not obstructing your experience. You, however, is consuming their content and blocking their advertisers...
- CiPHPerCoder 9y agoAdblocking is the first line of defense against malware and invasive online tracking. (By adblocking I don't mean like AdBlock Plus I mean more like uBlock Origin.)
- blocked_again 9y agoThey have bills to pay and ads are probably their only source of income.
- lifeisstillgood 9y agoI think the one phrase we all need to learn these days is "Problems with your business model is not society's problem"
- Fifer82 9y agoTotally agree, I guess the apologists have business model problems.
- Blaiz0r 9y agoThen they should look for gainful employment in a stable industry that pays them consistently for their work.
- raechu 9y agoNews media is still the primary way of keeping the populace informed. The populace being informed is essential to them making good decisions when voting, without it democracy becomes a sham. This means that if being a journalist in news media is not "gainful employment in a stable industry that pays them consistently for their work" then we are going to have some serious problems as a society.
- CiPHPerCoder 9y agoHere's the kicker: We already have some serious problems as a society. They're just too nuanced and technical for most humans to care.
- sodafountan 9y agoHuh, it's almost like we need ads in order to have free content