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 Just btw, I have nothing against ads. But almost all ad networks do way more than show ads, often the ads are just a byproduct of incessant tracking and data gathering. Combined with inefficient and insecure implementation and fueled by a death spiral of websites trying to outcompete each other on the most gross content. 14 comments
 @Cloudscout @thomasfuchs And if the sites showed just a little restraint. Our local community site has more ads than content with animations everywhere. @thomasfuchs ads started off like traditional billboards. Then marketers started abusing more and more technology to chase after a gross “we will build personas on everyone” goal. People are done with being tracked and manipulated online. @nicholashead @thomasfuchs For over a 100 years ads didn't have animations. And worked perfectly. Now they are color explosions and constantly flickering which makes reading the article some kind of high power mind game, which is almost unsolvable. Especially animations are the dumbest idea ad agencies ever had. They make using an ad blocker mandatory. @thomasfuchs @nicholashead Was more thinking of magazines, the paper-internet before the real internet. @recker5 @nicholashead Fair enough! There’s was some attempts at interactivity with magazine ads, for example flexidisk records and scratch’n’sniff but it was relatively rare and mostly gimmicky @thomasfuchs @nicholashead I just can't read anything if there's a dancing monkey on the left and the right that explodes every 2 seconds.  AdNauseam is a nice FF-Extension which you can set to hide and click ads. And you can differentiate between tracking/non-tracking ads so you can allow non-tracking and 'punish' the tracking one (if desired).  @thomasfuchs @thomasfuchs I heard consumer advocate Clark Howard on his radio show raging about Doubleclick's cross-site tracking cookies, and telling how to opt out on Doubleclick's site, in the year 1997. I presume there's no opting out now. The WWW has been this way just about from the start.  @thomasfuchs ADs are good : It boosts the RAM of your computer up to 128GB and your processor is upgraded to i9 in matter of seconds 🤷 |
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@thomasfuchs EXACTLY! Well, I don't exactly like ads but I would be willing to tolerate them as a condition of free content if the current ad delivery systems weren't inherent security threats.