Comment by riku_iki
3 years ago
> My recommendation is to both disable third party cookies and this new thing. You don't need either of them.
then you will see random low quality ads instead of something you may be interested in
3 years ago
> My recommendation is to both disable third party cookies and this new thing. You don't need either of them.
then you will see random low quality ads instead of something you may be interested in
Oh my god, how will I live my life knowing the parts of the web pages I tune out give pennies to certain companies instead of others. It's FOMO for ads!
Oh wait, I use uBlock Origin, so this doesn't affect me at all! I'm stealing all that data from servers that give it to me when doing an unathenticated GET.
You're perfectly free to use an ad blocker as you always have. But for the people who don't block ads, it's obviously preferable to see ads relevant to them than totally arbitrary stuff.
That isn't obvious at all. There are various reasons why someone would not be blocking ads but not all of them include actually wanting to see the ads or caring about the content.
google likely tracks you anyway through your search, youtube, browser history synced to your account, so yes, you take pennies from little competition google still have to actual google.
I use Firefox, DuckDuckGo, NewPipe/invidious, CookieAutoDelete to logout of Google as soon as the tab is closed.
I'm sure they track me nonetheless, but it's a bit less.
Not everyone has a google account, nor any of those services.
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Just use Ad Nauseum, then everyone gets the pennies, and you don't lose time off of your life looking at things you don't want to see.
<cough> google container for firefox
That's a fine choice by me. In the rare scenarios I turn off my ad blocker, I want to see generic badly targeted ads, not ads precisely engineered to cause me to make a purchase or change my worldview.
Exactly! Ad companies literally pay psychologists to convince people to buy stuff they don't need. Everyone loves to say "those tricks don't work on me!", but the reality is that they absolutely do. You see an ad for Coke a thousand times, and you're at the store and thirsty, hey, there's a refrigerator full of Coke and I haven't had one in a while...
I'm certain a company could convince me to buy a new mechanical keyboard or nice mouse or some app I don't need but that looks pretty cool. That kind of targeting might just separate me from my money. On the other hand, no one's ever going to convince me to buy any brand of tampons.
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I'd rather not see ads for things I may be interested in. Do you see why?
We could have privacy protection as the default, and then you can opt-in to sharing your personal life with hundreds of companies so they can show you more relevant ads. Since everyone loves relevant ads, they'd be sure to opt-in, right?
there are such browsers and search engines, but looks like majority prefers to use services with quality backed by revenue from relevant ads.
But if I block ads in my browsers, at the router level through Ad Guard, route all my personal devices through Tailscale, and use Firefox then I won't see those either.
I think eventually Ads industry will catch up on those like you if it will threaten Ads revenue in significant volumes.
There were news already that they block people from playing youtube videos if they blocked ads.