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The Ad Blocking Wars
You might have noticed that even when using a lightning-fast Internet connection, it takes a few beats, enough time to drum your fingers, for web pages to load. It’s likely because of online advertising, which bogs down your browser, drains your battery and jacks up mobile charges — not to mention collects private data.
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It's not lost if we never intended to click on the ad to began with, or even look at it if we can help it. I don't care if you show me an ad every day,20 times a day for a sugary drink, I'm still not buying it. And at the end of the day, ad mongers power and influence stops where my browser begins. It's MY browser and I decide what appears on it,not some fat old ad man.
And in a nutshell,this is it. They brought it on themselves and now have the audacity to yell and scream about ad blockers depriving them of money they feel they deserve just because they exist....Well they can cry me a blooming river..It does not work that way and I will not have my web experience turned into the equivalent of tv. I've had ads rammed down my throat all my life and enough is enough.
What you just worded fits exactly my idea of this crap. I am just wondering what the difference is between spam and ads. Both can be blocked and both are based on the idea that if you post enough, eventually there'll be a fool to click on it. It were advertisements that drove me away from television, because they were there, no blocking allowed. Those ads were payed for twice: once by me, once by the advertiser self. So, all I do with blocking is taking away the sub-atomic small chance of me clicking on it and thus the chance of making money by the advertiser. So f-ing what? The entire advertisment industry is based on assumptions and (false) promises, nothing substantial except for the money being made on some fried air.
I already paid for my internet, so basically it's mine. And when I don't want to see things, I ignore or block them. Let those adertisers find better, less annoying, ways to do their thing or die out.