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Re:Advertising 'accounts for half of data used to read artic... by DanBC on Thursday March 17, 2016 @06:14AM (#11303507)
Stopping people sending me stuff that I do not want that costs me money to receive is easy to justify.
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Re:Advertising 'accounts for half of data used to read artic... by TheLogothete on Thursday March 17, 2016 @06:20AM (#11303521)
Don't visit their sites. Problem solved!
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Re:Advertising 'accounts for half of data used to read artic... by douche on Thursday March 17, 2016 @08:06AM (#11303836)
Except you don't know, before you go to it, whether any random site is going to hit you with 47-bazillion tracking cookies, load ads from 17 different ad networks, pulling down high-resolution images, malicious scripts, etc, etc.

It's gotten bad enough that I'm using my hosts file to block all this garbage, so requests to any of these sleazeball advertisers and trackers just 404. I'm amazed at how awful the internet is when I have to see all the sludge that advertising sprays all over it.

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