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>No-one is forcing you to see ads Uh? Where do you live? Where do you browse? I'm a paid subscriber to newspapers and they keep tracking me and emailing/notif
by rcMgD2BwE72F 5y ago
>No-one is forcing you to see ads
Uh? Where do you live? Where do you browse?
I'm a paid subscriber to newspapers and they keep tracking me and emailing/notifying/displaying ads. They even share my data to their "partners". I can't get out of my apartment without seeing ad everywhere (subway, buildings, billboards...). You cannot escape advertising unless you completely isolate yourself from society.
- yosito 5y agoI'm not OP, but I've stopped using Google products as much as possible, and browse the internet with Firefox and uMatrix. There are very few physical world ads where I live, due to local restrictions. The only ads I see these days are sponsored posts when I open Instagram, and I'm doing that less and less because in my experience 80% of the content on Instagram is either a sponsored post or cheap low-quality recommended posts, and only 20% are the friends that I follow. My point is, it's not impossible to avoid ads these days.
- jokethrowaway 5y agoMy point is that if people were that bothered by ads, they would be willing to pay ad-free alternatives and we wouldn't have ads. For some things you can actually choose between free ad-supported or paid without ads. Besides, I really don't see ads in my life - but that's because I use adblock and similar software. I don't live in a big city anymore so I don't see physical ads as well.