I wouldn't mind ads in my browser if they behaved inobtrusively. What makes me block them is their infuriating attempts to hijack my attention even at a cost of preventing me from reading / listening / watching the real content.
You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?
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Re: You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?
#32Like in They Live?
Re: You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?
#33But ads in real life do not prevent me from going on about my day. There is no analogy to interstitial pages with ads like in Forbes some time ago with the button Continue to your article: it would be infuriating if you had to view an ad before being able to use the subway ticketing system. You also don’t have ads on at the airport timetable screen. You don’t have pinkertons following you to learn your habits and sho…
For most women, photoshopped models on billboards already crossed the line decades ago.
And for men the same, but with boxer-shorts ads right?
Re: You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?
#34But ads in real life do not prevent me from going on about my day. There is no analogy to interstitial pages with ads like in Forbes some time ago with the button Continue to your article: it would be infuriating if you had to view an ad before being able to use the subway ticketing system. You also don’t have ads on at the airport timetable screen. You don’t have pinkertons following you to learn your habits and sho…
The people writing articles at Forbes are on payroll. Ad blockers take food off their plate just to avoid a minor inconvenience. All you're doing is pushing these companies to either go subscription only or go bankrupt. Watch the level of entitlement of the people who will inevitably try defending their content theft. They can't win the argument and they always appeal to false moral virtues. They act like targeted ad…
Honestly, going full subscription or bankrupt would be fine with me. It’s the publisher’s responsibility to find a business model that works. What exactly am I stealing by blocking ads? I have no moral or ethical oblication to view them or to allow them to follow me round the web… nowhere was I asked or consented to the exchange of my personal information and resources to view their content
Re: You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?
#35I live in the area of Grenoble, a french city leaded by ecologists than banned ads several years ago (since 2014 if I'm correct).
This is a pleasure, or, more precisely, I feel overwhelmed when I exit my city and am surrounded by so many ads!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.france24.com/en/20141124-fr...
Re: You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
When you sign up for a store loyalty card, there's usually a form you fill out and sign. That's your "cookie consent".
I don't have a problem with accepting some ToS when I sign up to a service. My problem is this new law where you have to accept the ToS of every single website on the internet before you can use it, then the ad networks, the analytics services, etc. It would be like having to sign a ream of papers every time I enter a store.
The sites wouldn't need to get your consent for justifiable usage only. They actively decide they want more than that, they want to sell your data. So it's on them, the law itself is fine.
Re: You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?
#37Re: You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?
#38I own a website www.Photopea.com, visited by 3 million people a month. Once in a while, I enable adblock detector, and do not allow usrers with adblocks use the service. I wish everyone was doing that. When you see someone willing to give you a car (or anything else), but they want money in exchange (i.e. sell it to you), you understand, that it is wrong to take the car without giving them money (i.e. stealing). But…
Maybe watching ads would be a fair exchange if there was an option to pay, often (mostly), there isn’t. Additionally to some (most), ads aren’t the problem, its tracking, creation of shadow profiles etc
Never used photopea, hope it works out for you, but I wish website creators stopped thinking that invasion of my privacy is a currency
Re: You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?
#39But ads in real life do not prevent me from going on about my day. There is no analogy to interstitial pages with ads like in Forbes some time ago with the button Continue to your article: it would be infuriating if you had to view an ad before being able to use the subway ticketing system. You also don’t have ads on at the airport timetable screen. You don’t have pinkertons following you to learn your habits and sho…
Some new forms of IRL ads do interrupt your flow.
Examples I've encountered:
* In a mall touchscreen navigation kiosk, an ad is shown when you first wake up the device by touching it.
* At multiple points in the McDonald's self-order touchscreen kiosk flow.
* On Starbucks screen menus, the whole menu is periodically replaced with a video ad, forcing you to wait until its end to finish making your choice.
> You also don’t have ads on at the airport timetable screen.
In the biggest international airport in my country, there are now periodical Covid-19 "info spots" interrupting the display of timetables, check-in desk and gate information screens.