Underestimating the power of Jeff Bezos

Re:Underestimating the power of Jeff Bezos by rb808 on Monday September 18, 2017 @10:21AM (#15276171)

Agreed - also see the number of people that block ads to get the news for free. How hard is it to have ads on the page?

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Re:Underestimating the power of Jeff Bezos by joeblubaugh on Monday September 18, 2017 @11:08AM (#15276573)

I don't block ads to "get the news for free." I do it to marginally protect myself from an increasingly omnipresent surveillance apparatus that's tracking my entire path across the internet, across devices, as well as in the real world.

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Re:Underestimating the power of Jeff Bezos by ma2rten on Monday September 18, 2017 @11:33AM (#15276790)

Safari is going to prevent ad tracking by not allowing cross domain cookies. Does that mean you are would use Safari instead when the feature is released?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/ad-industry-deep...

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Re:Underestimating the power of Jeff Bezos by Animats on Monday September 18, 2017 @12:31PM (#15277293)

Safari is going to prevent ad tracking by not allowing cross domain cookies.

That's been an option in Firefox for years.[1]

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cook...

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Re:Underestimating the power of Jeff Bezos by Shikadi on Monday September 18, 2017 @11:01AM (#15276515)

It would be fine if advertisements weren't intrusive and obnoxious. I don't want to start reading a page, then three sentences in have my whole screen jump, then a few more sentences have an overlay pop up, then have some inline text that looks like it's part of the article but is actually an ad, finally to accidently mouse over some text that pops up a video with sound. That's how I experience much of the internet without ad blocking, not to mention how much slower things load. I disable on sites I frequent that don't do that.

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Re:Underestimating the power of Jeff Bezos by ouid on Monday September 18, 2017 @01:51PM (#15277980)

they don't get paid for having you look at the ad, they get paid for having you interact with the ad. What you're really asking is "how hard is it to spend money on advertised products?" (after all, the value of advertising is exactly equal to the additional money you spend on advertised products as a result of the advertising, you can't claim to be adding value if that's not the case, by a trivial accounting argument)

I think I have a right not to spend money on advertised products as a rule. Some people are happy to spend money on advertised products. So many people, in fact, that the value I add by simply viewing your content and sharing it with society at large, that you still benefit from my interaction with your product with adblock active. Or it used to be before middlemen started sucking an ever increasing percentage of ad revenue away from content producers.

Ultimately your complaint is analogous to "some people go see free concerts, but don't buy 8 dollar beers". And, yeah, that's built into the business model.

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