Re:The Rise of Adblock Shaming
by listenallyall on Sunday July 15, 2018 @03:51AM
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Sounds like Google sold you out -- you should probably stop using Google Search. How would a news site know what you Googled, unless Google sold or shared that information?
Re:The Rise of Adblock Shaming
by Crosseye_Jack on Sunday July 15, 2018 @05:19AM
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You Google “shoes”, You land on a shoe manufacturers site, said site has either ad’s or user tracking software from Tech Gaint A (Note: Tech Giant A isn’t Google, intact they are arch rivals). TGA sets a cookie on your browser with a UID and makes a note about you having some interest in shoes. Anyway, these are not the shoes you are looking for so you back out and search some more.
The next day you visit “All Sports News” (or something) and they serve ads from TGA. TGA’s ad see’s the UID cookie, checks your profile and shows you an ad for shoes.
So yeah you go, how a news site could serve you ads about something you searched for on Google (or any other search engine) without that search engine selling you out.
Not saying Google are “Holier than thou”, yeah they have their own ad network and will profile what you search and serve you ads based on your search unless you opt-out of everything. Just saying it’s possible that Google didn’t sell them out.
Re:The Rise of Adblock Shaming
by listenallyall on Monday July 16, 2018 @06:22AM
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What's the difference? So a shoes site sold you out instead of Google. In both cases, it wasn't the news site who did, but that's who you're taking free content from.
I’ll happily consume it regardless, yes. If there is a paid subscription - good. Dumb ads - good. Blocked tracking ads - good, and I’m not sorry I’m killing their business.
The key here is of course that I find the idea of showing me a shoe ad because I googled “shoes” last year a much more serious ethical offense than downloading without paying for it.
> all because you dared show me an ad
No, again, I don’t mind ads. I mind my information used as a commodity in the process.
And yes - exactly - I can consume content for free and I will, while not caring whether content creators (journalists etc) lose their jobs, because no one watches the ads. And I’m not sorry, and not finding it unethical (not even cynical).
The ads-masquerading-as-non-ads I was thinking of was native ads in news and products pushed by instagram influencers etc.