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Re:Ad blockers are part of the problem by omginternets on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @01:48PM (#13016401)
>Surely you have to be at least a bit aware of the fact that the only way to serve ads that you, omginternets, will find value in would be to track you and your viewing and buying habits all over the internet, right? Which is one of the things that adblockers seek to circumvent...

And surely I have, despite your strangely snide tone.

This is where relevance is particularly important: the pot has to be pretty sweet for me to accept tracking.

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Re:Ad blockers are part of the problem by CountSessine on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @02:42PM (#13016912)
And surely I have, despite your strangely snide tone.

Sorry - no snideness intended. It seemed like a bit of a contradiction to me, that's all.

I myself believe that web advertising is just completely broken; I use an ad-blocker for safety and because on mobile the browsing difference with and without an ad blocker is like night vs day. But I'm also very aware that a lot of creative people earn their livings with advertising and I'm hoping we can figure out a good technological solution to this problem of making web advertising less-awful. Maybe micro-transactions. Maybe an <advertisement> tag that lives outside the DOM and doesn't affect page loading. I don't know.

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