Re:Brave disables Chromium FLoC features
by 13415 on Saturday April 10, 2021 @06:05PM
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On the contrary, the websites who display ads steal screen space on my machine without paying me for it, some of them even steal computing time by running unauthorized scripts.
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By the same argument you are stealing the website‘s bandwidth by visiting it without clicking on the ads.
These reductionist approaches don‘t really help with understanding ads (and communication in general).
I was kidding, of course. Neither running an ad blocker nor running a website that runs script is stealing anything.
However, I do run an ad blocker and I'm completely fine if every company that relies on ads for income goes out of business. In fact, I'd appreciate it.