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Re:Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements by gcthomas on Thursday May 30, 2019 @10:47AM (#20051711)
Tracking ads are collecting data on people without their explicit consent or knowledge. The trade in bulk personal data is a stain on the internet.

I am quite content to block these sorts of adverts and I'm not worried by the site's loss of revenue. I am not responsible for their slimy choice in business model.

Let's get back to context based adverts like DuckDuckGo use. There was no need for the internet to take this path - it only did so to rapidly monetise after the dot-com bust blew their VC funded rapid growth plans out of the water.

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Re:Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements by jamiequint on Thursday May 30, 2019 @11:19AM (#20052100)
> There was no need for the internet to take this path - it only did so to rapidly monetise after the dot-com bust blew their VC funded rapid growth plans out of the water.

No need, aside from the trillions of dollars of economic value it created and hundreds of thousands of previously impossible businesses it created.

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