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You're not alone. Not at all. I'm also tired of the mentality that we need advertising or the internet would cease to exist. In my opinion, if you need invasive
by jrnichols 4y ago
You're not alone. Not at all. I'm also tired of the mentality that we need advertising or the internet would cease to exist. In my opinion, if you need invasive advertising revenue to exist, you don't need to be on the internet.
Advertisements are slowing everything down. Tracking us. Serving us malware in some cases. We don't need them. Pi-hole/adguard could be standard. I'd rather pay $200 more for a TV set than have one with "analytics." I'm sick of the ads and block as many as I can - Google's "unobtrusive ads" included.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 4y ago"I'm also tired of the mentality that we need advertising of the internet would cease to exist." IMO, it's not a mentality, it is just propaganda. When "tech" companies are advertising-supported intermediaries conducting internet surveillance, then they are in a position to control the flow of ideas across the wire. There is no limit on the number of self-interested, bad arguments that Silicon Valley can inject onto the internet as attempts to influence the www using public and protect its "business".
- fxtentacle 4y agoOther people have a glass box with ants inside... I sometimes enjoy starting AdNauseam [1] inside a VM so that I can watch the machine click on all those ads that I never see (as long as the pi-hole works). It feels a bit like a bonfire with other people's money ;) [1] https://vimeo.com/111943439 https://vimeo.com/111943439
- kag0 4y agoHardware like TVs are especially insidious because unlike a service you don't simply decide to stop using it one day and the ad revenue stops. Rather ad revenue continues for the lifetime of the TV and there is very little chance that a company will forgo that recurring ad revenue in exchange for an increase in up-front MSRP