I have an ad-blocker, plus my browser is well trained in not accepting trackers and other nefarious ways to obtain my personal data, including my browsing data. With those two things (ad-blocker, well trained browser) my internet is way faster than with all the sales, pop-ups-and-unders, unrequested scripts, which is, all and all, one of my biggest things with a network in 2020: speed.
My browser, a lean and mean Firefox, uses after four hours of internetbrowsing somewhat 1.5 GB of RAM. When I was still using Facebook (which is, in essence, one big advertisement) that went up to about 2.3 GB after a few hours. I actually do not know exactly how much it is with my ad-blocker turned off, but eventhough I use Linux, some scripts are just bad motherfuckers to have on your machine in some cache-folder. So, there's another good moral stance: the placement of unwanted software on my, normally very safe, machine. Which is, to my opinion, a criminal offence, comparable with sabotage or an attempt thereof.
Businesses that need to be intrusive to sell their products, are not the ones I want to do business with in the first place. That kind of desperation stinks of bad quality products. Ads are okay in a way, but when someone doesn't need them, so be it.
I understand websites need to make money, or at least the people running them do. But just check The Guardian for once: no ads, no trackers and other acts of criminal behaviour and still a well earning newspaper. Just ask politely at the end of every article if the reader is interested in sponsoring or taking a membership. That's it. And if the chance is there that this method doesn't work on your site, well, I don't want to break it to you, but there are billions of people on the web and they all have bright ideas, just like you. Even with annoying ads: nobody cares. So there's a hint: make a better product or try another job.
I have an ad-blocker, plus my browser is well trained in not accepting trackers and other nefarious ways to obtain my personal data, including my browsing data. With those two things (ad-blocker, well trained browser) my internet is way faster than with all the sales, pop-ups-and-unders, unrequested scripts, which is, all and all, one of my biggest things with a network in 2020: speed.
My browser, a lean and mean Firefox, uses after four hours of internetbrowsing somewhat 1.5 GB of RAM. When I was still using Facebook (which is, in essence, one big advertisement) that went up to about 2.3 GB after a few hours. I actually do not know exactly how much it is with my ad-blocker turned off, but eventhough I use Linux, some scripts are just bad motherfuckers to have on your machine in some cache-folder. So, there's another good moral stance: the placement of unwanted software on my, normally very safe, machine. Which is, to my opinion, a criminal offence, comparable with sabotage or an attempt thereof.
Businesses that need to be intrusive to sell their products, are not the ones I want to do business with in the first place. That kind of desperation stinks of bad quality products. Ads are okay in a way, but when someone doesn't need them, so be it.
I understand websites need to make money, or at least the people running them do. But just check The Guardian for once: no ads, no trackers and other acts of criminal behaviour and still a well earning newspaper. Just ask politely at the end of every article if the reader is interested in sponsoring or taking a membership. That's it. And if the chance is there that this method doesn't work on your site, well, I don't want to break it to you, but there are billions of people on the web and they all have bright ideas, just like you. Even with annoying ads: nobody cares. So there's a hint: make a better product or try another job.