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> I find advertising repugnant You can't do business without advertising. Are you for shutting down small and medium businesses? If you are employed find out h

> I find advertising repugnant You can't do business without advertising. Are you for shutting down small and medium businesses? If you are employed find out how your company gets clients and acquires customers. It is mostly through advertising. And if they don't, the clients they depend on for orders do. It is a chain and if that chain gets disrupted everyone suffers. I don't understand why anyone would find the concept of advertising repugnant! Sure there are horrible ads and then there are scammy ways of advertising. Those should be regulated. But to put the entire advertising landscape under the bus is totally not acceptable! > I'd much rather see ads that are irrelevant to me because they're easier to ignore and I'm less likely to be affected by them I bet majority of the people find ads that are not relevant repugnant. I hate it when I am recommended an ad that I have no interest in, over and over again. To the point where I turn off whatever I am reading/watching. Why would I sit through watching an ad for 15 seconds that is irrelevant to me? > I don't want to be influenced by ads. Use adblock.

na85 6y ago
In another reply to me you appear to be arguing with a straight face that widespread use of adblock would cause the death of literally all small and medium business. In this reply you are advocating that I use adblock. I have flagged your post, as trolling is against the HN posting guidelines
- shripadk 6y ago
  I'm advocating you to use adblock since you are so easily influenced by ads. You need your safe space. There are a billion others who aren't as gullible as you are. They don't need to be "protected" just because your Highness feels so. We all have our freedoms to choose what we want to watch and not watch. You are just enforcing your idea of the internet on everyone else because you can't watch a 15 second ad that you fear will influence you. What a load of bollocks! Btw the other comment was specific to the idea of everyone using ad block which is what you essentially advocated. Everyone won't voluntarily use an ad blocker. It has to be enforced. Now why should I be forced to turn off ads? Just because you feel so? I have my rights to view whatever I want. Who do you think you are to dictate what I should and shouldn't watch? If I don't like ads I'll block them myself. I don't need some authority baby sitting me. If I want privacy focused apps I'll use them. It is ultimately my choice. The moment something is enforced on me it just violates my rights.

na85 6y ago

In another reply to me you appear to be arguing with a straight face that widespread use of adblock would cause the death of literally all small and medium business. In this reply you are advocating that I use adblock. I have flagged your post, as trolling is against the HN posting guidelines

shripadk 6y ago
I'm advocating you to use adblock since you are so easily influenced by ads. You need your safe space. There are a billion others who aren't as gullible as you are. They don't need to be "protected" just because your Highness feels so. We all have our freedoms to choose what we want to watch and not watch. You are just enforcing your idea of the internet on everyone else because you can't watch a 15 second ad that you fear will influence you. What a load of bollocks! Btw the other comment was specific to the idea of everyone using ad block which is what you essentially advocated. Everyone won't voluntarily use an ad blocker. It has to be enforced. Now why should I be forced to turn off ads? Just because you feel so? I have my rights to view whatever I want. Who do you think you are to dictate what I should and shouldn't watch? If I don't like ads I'll block them myself. I don't need some authority baby sitting me. If I want privacy focused apps I'll use them. It is ultimately my choice. The moment something is enforced on me it just violates my rights.