Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a different web

Re:Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a ... by mplewis on Monday January 31, 2022 @04:32PM (#30154747)

I once sent a link to a news article to a friend at work. He became angry at me because the link I had sent him was to a malware-infested shit site. It wasn't, but the ads in the site I had intended to send had taken over his browser and made it indistinguishable from a malware link.

That's how showing ads on your site is abuse of the user.

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Re:Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a ... by chki on Monday January 31, 2022 @05:00PM (#30155161)

You've just shifted the goalposts significantly and did not really reply in good faith. Showing ads is very different from linking to malware. Especially on YouTube the amount of malware is probably very low since everything is sandboxed.

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Re:Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a ... by cartesius13 on Monday January 31, 2022 @05:11PM (#30155348)

I think the point is that putting so many ads on a page to the point of it becoming indistinguishable from a malware infested shit site is a form of abuse to the user. I personally agree with this take, if that's what he meant

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Re:Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a ... by Nextgrid on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @07:07AM (#30161464)

Showing ads without properly vetting them nor taking responsibility for any malicious ads is not in good faith either.

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