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The point is that the reason you feel the need to immediately block ads is because of how they have been abused and pushed to further and further absurdity over
by orev 8y ago
The point is that the reason you feel the need to immediately block ads is because of how they have been abused and pushed to further and further absurdity over the years.
- akvadrako 8y agoThat may be the point, but it's wrong. Advertising is manipulative and causes people to make bad decisions. It shouldn't be allowed at all.
- matt4077 8y agoAdvertisement is a required feature of a market-based economy, because it (also) informes consumers of the choices available. Without ads, the chances of breaking into an established market are extremely low.
- H1Supreme 8y ago> Advertising is manipulative and causes people to make bad decisions. Not all advertising is some evil plot to brainwash the public. At it's core, it's a way to let the public know about your product. In the correct context, it's beneficial to the consumer. My Grandpa used to subscribe to Hemmings Motor News. It's a magazine that is focused on restoring vintage cars. It has regular ads, and a pretty large classified section. He used that magazine, including the ads, as a resource for vehicle restoration. Ads selling parts for 1940's Chevy pickup trucks in a section of a magazine specifically catering to that audience make sense. They're beneficial to people in the market for those products. I agree that web sites or real sites (eg. Times Square) that simply bombard you with anything and everything are awful. But, you can't put all advertising under one umbrella.
- systematical 8y agoSo spend tons of time and money building a startup, but don't advertise it...got it. Sound economics.
- ElFitz 8y ago> Advertising is manipulative and causes people to make bad decisions. So do a lot of unasked opinions, especially on the internet (oh the irony). They're somehow still allowed to have and share them.
- yayana 8y agoI don't know that is true, I spend more than half my time on resources similar to (sometimes even from) the pre-commercial Internet. The existence of the Ad driven Internet is disruptive even if it were pretty benign simply because it has money and it wants all the engagement.
- Viliam1234 8y ago> it wants all the engagement This. From my user perspective, a good website is one that gives me the information that I need, when I need it, in minimum necessary time. From ad-driven websites's perspective, a good user is one that visits the website as often as possible, and stays as long as possible; also provides all kinds of personal data (in ideal case, also on other people). Problem is, even if I turn off the ads, I cannot turn off the design decisions that were influenced by the ads. Such as, pages trying to make you click on more pages, long descriptions where a short one would do, multiple articles containing essentially the same information, articles with partial information (which don't get updated, because a new article gets written instead), etc.
- everdrive 8y agoAgreed 100%. I don't believe there's a good top-down solution here, though. Cultivate a few websites that don't have bad design, and otherwise spend more time reading books. (or, just using some medium that is not the internet)