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Re:Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 CSS classes to every... by acrispino on Friday February 08, 2019 @03:34PM (#19118373)
If "no shit" is an appropriate response to advertiser behavior, I'd want "no shit" to also be an appropriate response to users installing ad blockers, instead of whining: https://www.adweek.com/digital/yahoo-exec-calls-out-mobile-a...
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Re:Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 CSS classes to every... by asdkhadsj on Friday February 08, 2019 @03:46PM (#19118497)
Agree 100%. Ad blockers are akin to piracy which has been a natural force on the consumer side. Legalities aside, if you make consumers UX miserable enough they often work through it - and I support that.

My comment was mainly in the context of ads being discussed as some anti-consumer device. Where as I view them as a natural part of the payment ecosystem. Too many ads are akin to products being too expensive - and unsurprisingly shift consumers towards "piracy".

It's a natural battle.

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