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I think the author hits on something here. It's not the ads that bother me, it's that they are destructive to my time, bandwidth, and battery. It's the equivale
by jscheel 11y ago
I think the author hits on something here. It's not the ads that bother me, it's that they are destructive to my time, bandwidth, and battery. It's the equivalent of walking into a furniture store and being followed around by a salesperson who won't respect your personal space and berates you verbally if you don't buy immediately. Even better, if you've ever visited a city/country with a bad tout culture (like Luxor, Egypt), it's a lot like that. It's fine for you to advertise to me, but once you've had you say, get out of my way and don't make my life miserable.
- ohitsdom 11y agoThe analogy breaks down a little bit because you aren't just shopping, you are getting the product, and the price of that product is listening to the salesperson. So the situation is probably closer to sitting through a timeshare presentation to get something free, although online you are not forced to pay attention to the ad for any amount of time.
- jscheel 11y agoFair enough. It seems that most timeshare deals have figured out the balance of pitch to product though. The internet, however, is filled with hack jobs that make your page take 11 seconds to load. It's like the timeshare guy that keeps grabbing your shirt when he wants your attention.
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- walterbell 11y agoAn alternative to blocking all ads would be blocking based on risk. We could have open blacklists or JSON content-blocking rules for different ad/content categories, including business models. Blocking extensions could optionally notify sites of tagged categories which are whitelisted.