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A career as a TV producer beckons.A lot of money can be made from slinging shite at bored people.
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A career as a TV producer beckons.A lot of money can be made from slinging shite at bored people.
The flipside of that, as I'm sure you know is the invasion or privacy with the tracking of users from one site to another. Why is it Facebook's concern what other sites I visit? Or Google's for that matter?
Not only that, but there's such a thing as malvertising. It's not unheard of for bad actors to place advertisements which exploit the browser in order to compromise peoples devices. It's safer browsing with these adverts disabled.
Adblockers put people back into control. People can permit adverts on the sites they trust, rather than accepting them willy nilly.
Advertising is far more effective when they have know who they're advertising to, that's why Facebook advertising is so effective. I completely understand people may have privacy concerns, or that they may not wish to see adverts, or they may be concerned about malware, and I respect that, but there's quite a simple solution... don't go to those websites. Everybody is happy then, you don't have to sell out your privacy and the website operators don't have to pay to deliver their website to people who aren't providing revenue.
You have control, you choose which websites you visit. I chose to visit staffordforum.com today in the knowledge that I am tracked here by Facebook and Google. If I didn't like that this forum allowed Facebook to track me then I'd refuse to visit it, and write an email to the administrator explaining why. Maybe the administrator refuses to remedy my concerns, in which case maybe I start my own stafford forum without Facebook tracking? Maybe people show that there is demand for a stafford forum that doesn't track people?
You have options, many options, and I don't really believe it's fair that one of them is to continue visiting the website while blocking things that the website operators intended to be delivered to you in return for providing the service.
Denying content to visitors who run add blocking/script blocking software is a trivial exercise for the curators of these websites and services.
At the end of the day, I own my hardware. If I don't want to waste processing power, memory and electricity running scripts which might help facebook and Google but don't help me, that's my prerogative.
As far as Im am concerned Citrus Squid, you are talking a load of money grubbing bollock, and just repeating the same old garbage
It's easy to say "visit another website" but in practice it's not easy.
Because until websites stop using full screen 'hostage' ads or pop ups or ads where you cannot see the close box or auto-play videos or dodgy dating site ads then I will continue to use ad blockers.
If 'the industry' hadn't resorted to such intrusive practices, people wouldn't resort to using ad-blocking software.
I'm not denying that the infrastructure required to host web sites and services for large volumes of users isn't expensive. After all, my job is provisioning and maintaining such infrastructure.
I'm not opposed to websites/services that do offer advertising that's appropriate and relevant to the material that's hosted on them. But when you hit a website and upwards of 75% of the payload is advertising/tracker related, it's simply getting out of hand.
Web authors who want to raise revenue should throw up a paywall and provide value for money.
Or ask for donations.
There's no shortage of those on this very forum which is why i use an adblocker on here, depending on where I am when I view the site. Otherwise it might annoy Mrs p.dodgy dating site ads