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Theres a price to privacy. When I was younger I jumped on the bandwagon and for a period only used Firefox with cookie autodelete and cache cleared every exit.
by leonewton253 5y ago
Theres a price to privacy. When I was younger I jumped on the bandwagon and for a period only used Firefox with cookie autodelete and cache cleared every exit.
Now I just see it as being asocial. If Google didn't monetize search with ads how would you discover new products? Without ads websites would not be able to deliver premium content and we would all still be stuck in the early 90s. The internet would work like some broken socialist version of wikipedia.
I have ad free YouTube and sometimes I consider turning it off just to see what kinds of ads are out there that I've missed.
- zentiggr 5y agoWithout tracking-fed ads, the internet would work like a super powered version of the directory style setup like we had before Google suborned the very idea of 'the web'. I'd love to see an internet of individual directory sites, some of which could be 'pay for placement', some of which would be hand curated, others could be algorithmically built... So much better than Web == Google homepage == "What's a search? I type in where I want to go and click on the first thing I see"