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Re:Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history ... by II2II on Friday February 28, 2020 @12:52PM (#22444682)
A lot of the future of ad blocking will depend upon why people are blocking ads. Some of us have nothing againsts ads in principle, but do not like the practices of the advertising industry. This includes things like tracking people across websites, intrusive advertising, excessive bandwidth usage, deceptive advertising, and so on. Blocking the "analog hole" would be irrelevant in most of those cases.
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Re:Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history ... by tartoran on Friday February 28, 2020 @02:45PM (#22445696)
If ads were expensive to buy we'd see a lot fewer of them and would not need to be intrusive, they'd be be just as useful as intended, to inform people. The problem with the modern economy is that everything that works is eventually pushed over the fence and it stops working. The boom busting cycle keeps on repeating
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Re:Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history ... by JohnFen on Friday February 28, 2020 @02:53PM (#22445760)
They'd probably still engage in spying, though, which is 95% of what makes ads objectionable to me.
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Re:Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history ... by scarface74 on Friday February 28, 2020 @01:59PM (#22445315)
My problem with ads on mobile are that they are very obtrusive.
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