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I prefer adnaseum We should punish the world being built upon ads. We need to be aggressors and go on the offense rather than passively blocking them The driv
by loudtieblahblah 5y ago
I prefer adnaseum
We should punish the world being built upon ads. We need to be aggressors and go on the offense rather than passively blocking them
The drive for increasingly fine tuned ads is what destroyed our privacy at the corporate level. Then this data became ripe for the taking by government.
Ad networks are used to spread malware, suck of bandwidth the advertiser externalizes to you.
If you want people to pay for content - make content worth paying for.
And if we can't have social media bc the cost would be too much to bare without ad revenue? I consider this a problem solving itself. Adios.
- missedthecue 5y agoAdnauseum clicks are easily filtered out by ad networks
- axiosgunnar 5y agoBut it forces them to spend resources on it, lowering their margin, which in turn prevents them from saving up a war chest of cash that allows them to stop innovating and just buy up newcomers (eg Facebook buying Whatsapp, Instagram, etc)
- missedthecue 5y agoI doubt google is spending $billions on a script that filters bots.