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Many websites don't have ads, and I'd be happy if all others disappeared.

• chroma 3y ago
  Ok but you’re not the only person on the internet. Other people have different preferences, and in fact some even enjoy personalized ads. Nobody is forcing you to look at ads on the internet, so why is it fair to force others to not look at ads on the internet?
  • xigoi 3y ago
    If some people like being spied on and some don't, why would you oppose the legislation that websites should let people choose for themselves if they want to be spied on?
  • mcv 3y ago
    The solution is obvious: make personalised ads and ad profiles opt-in. Those who want them can choose to give up their privacy and eye-ball capacity, while the rest of can be free from those intrusions.
  • thfuran 3y ago
    And I’m sure that some people like being paid sub-livable wages in company scrip. But that the preference exists doesn’t mean it’s in society’s best interest to let those people get what they want.
• RestlessMind 3y ago
  Can you please share the list of websites you use which don't serve ads? Would love to see an internet experience without ads and without stealing the content via adblockers.
  • xigoi 3y ago
    It's not possible to provide an exhaustive list, but for example: * Hacker News (has promoted content, but without tracking) * Lobste.rs * Wikipedia * Mastodon * Project Euler * Notabug.org * Lingva Translate * Documentation for numerous FOSS projects * Various personal blogs Honestly, it's hard for me to find websites that I regularly voluntarily use and do contain ads.
    • RestlessMind 3y ago
      What do you use for - search, emails, online shopping, news (you mentioned HN but links submitted on HN have ads on them, unless you read only the HN comments)
      • xigoi 3y ago
        Search: Kagi E-mail: Disroot (but with any provider that supports IMAP, you pretty much never have to visit their website) Online shopping: while some of the sites may have ads, they could easily survive without ads because, well; they literally sell products News: if HN stopped allowing links to websites with ads, I certainly wouldn't miss them
        • RestlessMind 3y ago
          HN won't exist if there are no news sites and almost every site has ads on it.
          • xigoi 3y ago
            Many of the best sites I've discovered through Hacker News are ad-free.
            • RestlessMind 3y ago
              Mind sharing a few examples? Would be great to know a few ad-free sources.
              • xigoi 3y ago
                Sorry, in my massive list of bookmarks, I have no way to tell how I found out about the sites.
                • RestlessMind 3y ago
                  I am not asking about how. I am just asking which ad-free news sites do you use.