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The internet without an adblock is just a scary, misleading place that's trying to trick you into scams, echochambers, bad deals, bad advice, botnets and crypto
by unglaublich 5y ago
The internet without an adblock is just a scary, misleading place that's trying to trick you into scams, echochambers, bad deals, bad advice, botnets and cryptolockers.
- Topgamer7 5y agoI haven't run without an adblocker for like 10 years plus. The odd occasion I have it disabled, I can't actually believe what a trash heap some websites I browse are... popular ones! The internet has become so user hostile, I don't want 10 popups or alerts for cookies, ads, newsletter subscriptions to read a 10 second article.
- gruez 5y ago>echochambers >bad advice I doubt ublock does anything about that
- unglaublich 5y agoThe biggest echochambers (like ultranationalist parties) and worst advisors (financial, political, social) try to recruit new members via targeted advertising.
- KarlKemp 5y agoIn 16 years on the internet with as blocking limited to manually blocked annoyances only I have never had any of those issues. I’m almost certain it’s just an argument to justify adblocking. I wish people had the ability to avoid all the motivated reasoning and just honestly admit the selfishness of their behavior.
- robryan 5y agoAd tech went too far and has driven everyone to blocking. If the extent of ads was a couple of Google style sponsored text based results a lot of people would probably be fine seeing those.
- unglaublich 5y agoThe motivated reasoning is in line with the corresponding selfishness. I want a clean internet. I don't want to be exploited by advertisers. I am proud to admit that this is purely selfish indeed. The only way for an advertiser to reach me is to align with my selfish wishes.
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