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"""Or, you know, run an ad-blocker - much easier than jailbreaking a phone and Google Search/Gmail will continue to work well with an ad-blocker running, even i
by dextorious 15y ago
"""Or, you know, run an ad-blocker - much easier than jailbreaking a phone and Google Search/Gmail will continue to work well with an ad-blocker running, even if they upgrade the site.""
Actually, no, Google would stop business if people used ad-blockers en masse. So that's just something that works because few people do it.
And it's not like Google is gonna decide where they want to go their services, changes, etc, with you and not the marketer's benefit in mind.
So, even if you use ad-block, you're still the product being sold (to be exact: you're just a lost sale).
You can't escape that, unless you actually pay the company whose services you use.
- statictype 15y agoWell, that wasn't exactly the point I was trying to make. My point: The downside of Google products is having to look at their ads. The downside of Apple products is getting locked-in to their restricted platform. You can sidestep Google's downside with an ad-blocker. You can sidestep Apple's downside with a jail break. It's easier to run that ad-blocker (heck, you can even get it from Google's own store) and keep it running than it is to perform a jail break and keep that updated. As an aside - just like a lot of people aren't offended by the restrictions Apple places on its platform, a lot of people are not offended by Google's ads. In fact, I bet there's a very significant overlap in those two groups.