It’s my network. I control what does or does not go through it.
It has never even occurred to me that it might not be okay to block ads on connections or devices that I own – or even those that I don’t, for that matter.
Still true a decade later.
Isn’t ad blocking, as the industry magazine AdAge has called it, “robbery, plain and simple”?
Robbing corporations is based, though, actually.
Isn’t ad blocking, as the industry magazine AdAge has called it, “robbery, plain and simple”?
No. Find a way to make money that doesn’t require showing ads online if you have a problem with it.
Yeah. I don’t have a contract with the site, agreeing to pay them in any way, shape or form. They voluntarily show me their content, but that does not obligate me to also accept their ads.
It’s not like these ads have any respect.
The same reason why it is ok to not eat shit.
Right? These companies act like they are selling food and we are stealing it.
In reality, they put a big “free beer” sign up, we go and happily accept the beer, and then they act outraged that we refuse when they try to piss in the mug after handing it to us.
Advertising should be illegal. It should be considered harassment.
If you want people to find your product then we need to log that in a public database site. If you want to find a product go there, nobody ever wants to find a product while driving or watching movies or existing in public.
I agree, it’s just a net negative for the world.
If nobody advertised, the world would be better off
I have a personal rule to never buy from brands that harass me by spamming annoying ads left and right.
I can’t believe people actually pay for branded clothing. I avoid branded clothing like the plague. If companies like Nike actually want someone to walk around plastered with their brand on them they should be paying them.
But companies have convinced people to pay enormous amounts of money to wear their brand as a “style” or as “self-expression”. Just wow.
Leave my star trek branded clothing alone, I want a better future!
Star Trek branded clothing excluded.
They’re unnecessary, distracting, some try to track you and others can have malware. No thanks.
“some”. more like 99.9999999% of them
Accurate. I was trying to leave room so not to say all of them but I see you left just enough and that works too. :)
Because even US secret services (multiple of them) say so.
It’s my computer isn’t it? I can discard packets I don’t care to receive
no ads in web 1.0 and the internet was perfectly fine
There were ads! But these were simple banner graphics of 468x60 pixels. In the worst case it was an animated GIF. But hosted on the same server as the page and without any tracking shenanigans.
I remember the add that made me install my first add blocker. It stated playing the sound of knocking on glass and a voice going “Hey You!”. With a looped videoof some guy waving at me.
Every so often one gets through my blocker and they have only gotten more annoying.
Yeah, people seem to have mostly forgotten about the forced audio playback that was really prevalent for a while. It was crazy effective because you would have to hint down the actual ad causing the issue on the page to stop it.
I remember the add that made me install my first add blocker. It stated playing the sound of knocking on glass and a voice going “Hey You!”. With a looped videoof some guy waving at me.
I have a similar story. People were fine with ads until they got too obnoxious and intrusive, and now the people making the obnoxious intrusive ads are crying that people are blocking them.
there were so many fucking ads online in the late 90s
and you couldn’t block them because they were either served from the same domain or used the same plugin as the content and it was an all-or-nothing thing
all those goddamn blinking gifs with “click here” and “you’re our millionth visitor”, and the pop-ups, and the flash bars with “shoot the ducks”…
a lot of those came up in the late 90s early 2000s though. the early 90s were mostly just text based pages.
yeah, but as soon as the web actually had enough traffic to take off the ads were everywhere. before 1996 it was basically just a prototype.
that was 3.0
considering that “web 2.0” is widely accepted to be “the social web”, where the focus was on user contribution and interoperability… no.
maybe i’m getting my html versions mixed up with my buzzwords
yeah i think that’s about the same time. there are so many versions at the same time that it gets confusing
That’s before it got colonized by megacorporations.
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LoL, that wasn’t the original internet. That was years after the internet had been around. <joke here about these kids needing to get off my lawn>
It would be much harder to block ads if they were more like newspapers and just a part of the page you were viewing, instead of imported from a different source.
But in order to do that the site themselves would be responsible for the ads they display instead of blaming their ad service, and they would lose out on all their tracking data.
So fuck em.
“It’s my ccomputer” has already been mentioned, but it’s my bandwidth and my home network too. Ads can stay off it.
Advertising needs to become as socially acceptable as smoking.
It arbitrary pollutes any environment it’s conducted in, and causes secondary harms to non-participants by incentivising insecure hoarding of private information with the intent to better target individuals.
I’d personally start with billboards but instead now the billboards are screens too, not adjusted for night time to avoid distracting or blinding drivers and zero consideration for neighbors that have their backyards illuminated.
Maladvertising and scams just make that a surefire thing, especially since there’s a chance that just loading an ad could infect your machine.
And for less tech-savvy family members, it cuts down on the risk of them falling for scams or suchlike.
Ad-blocking is as legal as a lock on the door.
