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Don't leave us hanging.

• huhtenberg 14y ago
  The Better Advertising Project, with the basic idea to profile end-user ad-blocking activity on the Internet and to resell this data to advertisers. This might be OK with some people, but for me, personally, it's just too close for comfort.
  • shaggyfrog 14y ago
    Let's say they are re-selling this data that says who ad blocks. And I'm ad-blocking everything. So advertisers find out that an increasingly growing segment of the population don't abide "traditional" Internet advertising. This is bad for me why exactly? Honest question.
    • huhtenberg 14y ago
      Why do you block ads? It's a leading question, and the answer is likely to be that they are annoying. But why are they annoying? If you drill down a bit, then it's not because they blink, but because someone somewhere thought that you should see their ad. Because they made a decision for you, without asking, and it's not a decision that you would've made yourself. Similarly, any sort of reporting, anonymous or not, falls into the same domain - someone somewhere decided that you should be OK with it. I don't appreciate this. It's not what they do, it's the fact that they thought they could do it. It's ethics. I don't have a problem with someone accidentally farting in a room, but I would have a problem if someone had a choice of walking out, thought it over and then proceeded to do it anyway. It might be OK with others, but it's not OK with me. HTH.