Re:Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising?
by mardifoufs on Monday March 23, 2020 @03:42PM
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That would only lead to more and more websites asking for payment info, so no thanks. I'd rather have ads that I can block or just tolerate than completely close off the web a part from some niche, personal websites. Ad tracking is nothing compared to having my real life identity linked to me everywhere on the web, and possibly get locked off most of it if they decide to ban me at some point.
"The good old days" where the internet was mostly ad free (a very short amount of time after becoming mainstream) was nothing like the internet we have now. It was small, amateur websites that were akin to blogs. That's cool, but to completely cripple the much more useful internet we have now because people don't like ads would be a disaster. It's baffling to me how some people would prefer to just ban/restrict everything they don't like. Just block the ads!
"The good old days" where the internet was mostly ad free (a very short amount of time after becoming mainstream) was nothing like the internet we have now. It was small, amateur websites that were akin to blogs. That's cool, but to completely cripple the much more useful internet we have now because people don't like ads would be a disaster. It's baffling to me how some people would prefer to just ban/restrict everything they don't like. Just block the ads!