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Re:Ad blocking with Raspberry Pi and Pi-hole by dhimes on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @07:12AM (#23078735)
As always, it's not the ads most of us object to- it's the trackers. Google's original idea for monetizing the web, that you would be interested in something related to what you were searching for, apparently failed and now everybody's trying to follow you around to see what you might be interested in purchasing.

It needs to stop.

I know it's a lame solution but I use ff and containers and have a "shopping" container for sites that I don't block trackers on. I also have various other containers for other sites I don't mind knowing about each other. But mostly I block them.

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Re:Ad blocking with Raspberry Pi and Pi-hole by bluntfang on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @07:27AM (#23078831)
>it's not the ads most of us object to

I would love to see real data on this! Most of my peers don't want to be marketed to, at least when it comes to internet advertising. Definitely when it comes to traditional advertising (ie billboards are an eyesore, TV ads are offensive or irrelevant or just plain annoying).

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Re:Ad blocking with Raspberry Pi and Pi-hole by dhimes on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @07:52AM (#23079017)
Depending on how old you are, it used to be the norm in magazines and newspapers. You have an educational product so you buy an ad on the educational feature, for example.

I understand that advertisers pay for the sites I use and I would turn off the ad-blocker if I was promised I wasn't being tracked. But we have no control over those decisions so we do what we can.

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