Re:Adblock Radio: An adblocker for live radio streams and po...
by iamstupidsimple on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @09:10AM
(#21059729)
100% there on the analogy. It's incredibly difficult to define but I think we can put some boundaries on it straight away - flashing ads, usage of audio for static ads.
Re:Adblock Radio: An adblocker for live radio streams and po...
by abdullahkhalids on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @09:21AM
(#21059825)
Those things are just annoying. They are not even remotely the most dangerous tactics. See the discussion here [1] on Google Fi's advertisement for medium level tactics. Things like font sizes, colors, placement of text have already primed your mind to think 50 dollars. It will take a huge amount of rational thought to overturn the good gut feeling one has developed toward Google's offering based on the false 50 dollars statement.
Currently, once a few businesses in the market start using refined-sugar type ads everyone else has to or they die. I want legislation that only allow ads that are the fruit kind, not the refined-sugar kind. Until that happens, I will block all ads.