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> living this way must be truly exhausting Maybe, but so is constantly being bombarded with ads, offers, etc. when you're trying to do something else. And the
by thewebcount 4y ago
> living this way must be truly exhausting
Maybe, but so is constantly being bombarded with ads, offers, etc. when you're trying to do something else. And the tracking is mainly to power those things.
- DougN7 4y agoI very much doubt you get fewer ads - they’re just less personalized.
- thewebcount 4y agoPart of blocking tracking is just outright blocking ads, so yes, I definitely get fewer ads. Also, I'm able to see more content. My spouse often finds they can't access some random article (or not all of it) but it works fine for me with my extreme blocking.
- judge2020 4y agoDoesn't this do nothing for the cause of legislating away personalized ads, though? Not wanting ads at all is different from being a consumer of non-personalized ads and buying stuff from them when it's still relevant so that companies can still survive without your personal data when it's regulated.
- thewebcount 4y agoI don’t know the answer to your question, but I know that in 30+ years of browsing the web, I have literally never once intentionally clicked on an ad of any sort. (I have been tricked into clicking on a few, and done a few by accident, of course.) If I ever saw an ad that had something interesting in it, I would open a new window and enter the domain name by hand, anyway. But I’m weird that way.
- benced 4y agoI would bet that upwards of 90% of people on this thread outright block ads.
- capableweb 4y agoWhich, in the second place, most ads fucking suck at "personalization" anyways.
- JohnFen 4y agoI certainly get several orders of magnitude fewer ads. I don't even get the spam texts and calls that so many people around me do. And when I do see ads, they aren't personalized -- which is a great thing, in my view.