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Re:DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking... by jjbinx007 on Thursday April 15, 2021 @05:08AM (#26818003)
Indeed. If I buy a magazine then ads are targeted at readers of the magazine but they don't track me, invade my privacy, follow me around wherever I go or occasionally try to hijack me.

If a newspaper or online magazine had traditional ads that were embedded in the page as static images (no distracting video please) then I'd leave my ad blocker off.

Re:DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking... by WesolyKubeczek on Thursday April 15, 2021 @06:15AM (#26818525)
Careful what you wish for. I go to a local website for local news, and they display five big banners which you must scroll through — one and a half screen — before you get to see the actual content, headline included.

True, those are not targeted ads, they are sponsored content, but I wouldn’t even bother setting up my adblocker, had they made them less annoying.