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Oh 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 wai
by JetSpiegel 3y ago
Oh 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 agoYou're perfectly free to use an ad blocker as you always have. But for the people who don't block ads, it's obviously preferable to see ads relevant to them than totally arbitrary stuff.
- account42 3y agoThat isn't obvious at all. There are various reasons why someone would not be blocking ads but not all of them include actually wanting to see the ads or caring about the content.