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It's not that advertising is wrong. It's that it is so massively overdone that it makes common web experience unbearable. I now avoid browsing most major sites
by smsm42 8y ago
It's not that advertising is wrong. It's that it is so massively overdone that it makes common web experience unbearable. I now avoid browsing most major sites with my mobile devices that don't have full adblocks - because it'd either completely unusable or even worse, get the whole device stuck and eat half of my battery on the way. I know it's their business model and they don't know any better. It doesn't make it any better for me.
When you have one tasteful ad, it's fine. When you have five, that's too much. When you go to a site and see 50+ foreign domains with ad/tracking/marketing loading, that's cancer. That's not the internet I'd want.
- skinnymuch 8y agoIs this because you have a very old device or just not a good device? I don’t have any ad blocking. I go to sites on an almost 4 year old device and almost 1 year old device. Haven’t had issues with either at all. Not even a slight slowdown.
- smsm42 8y agoIt's an ok device, just not for displaying 10 animated ads per page.