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> My recommendation is to both disable third party cookies and this new thing. You don't need either of them. then you will see random low quality ads instead
by riku_iki 3y ago
> My recommendation is to both disable third party cookies and this new thing. You don't need either of them.
then you will see random low quality ads instead of something you may be interested in
- mehlmao 3y agoWe could have privacy protection as the default, and then you can opt-in to sharing your personal life with hundreds of companies so they can show you more relevant ads. Since everyone loves relevant ads, they'd be sure to opt-in, right?
- riku_iki 3y agothere are such browsers and search engines, but looks like majority prefers to use services with quality backed by revenue from relevant ads.
- Larrikin 3y agoBut if I block ads in my browsers, at the router level through Ad Guard, route all my personal devices through Tailscale, and use Firefox then I won't see those either.
- riku_iki 3y agoI think eventually Ads industry will catch up on those like you if it will threaten Ads revenue in significant volumes. There were news already that they block people from playing youtube videos if they blocked ads.
- kccqzy 3y agoThat's a fine choice by me. In the rare scenarios I turn off my ad blocker, I want to see generic badly targeted ads, not ads precisely engineered to cause me to make a purchase or change my worldview.
- kstrauser 3y agoExactly! Ad companies literally pay psychologists to convince people to buy stuff they don't need. Everyone loves to say "those tricks don't work on me!", but the reality is that they absolutely do. You see an ad for Coke a thousand times, and you're at the store and thirsty, hey, there's a refrigerator full of Coke and I haven't had one in a while... I'm certain a company could convince me to buy a new mechanical keyboard or nice mouse or some app I don't need but that looks pretty cool. That kind of targeting might just separate me from my money. On the other hand, no one's ever going to convince me to buy any brand of tampons.
- riku_iki 3y ago[flagged]
- JetSpiegel 3y agoOh my god, how will I live my life knowing the parts of the web pages I tune out give pennies to certain companies instead of others. It's FOMO for ads! Oh wait, I use uBlock Origin, so this doesn't affect me at all! I'm stealing all that data from servers that give it to me when doing an unathenticated GET.
- riku_iki 3y agogoogle likely tracks you anyway through your search, youtube, browser history synced to your account, so yes, you take pennies from little competition google still have to actual google.
- sodality2 3y agoNot everyone has a google account, nor any of those services.
- riku_iki 3y agoits probably close to statistical error in terms of revenue.
- Larrikin 3y agoJust use Ad Nauseum, then everyone gets the pennies, and you don't lose time off of your life looking at things you don't want to see.
- JetSpiegel 3y agoI use Firefox, DuckDuckGo, NewPipe/invidious, CookieAutoDelete to logout of Google as soon as the tab is closed. I'm sure they track me nonetheless, but it's a bit less.
- nottorp 3y ago<cough> google container for firefox
- dbbk 3y ago
- seanhunter 3y agoI'd rather not see ads for things I may be interested in. Do you see why?