Comment by JetSpiegel
3 years ago
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.
its probably close to statistical error in terms of revenue.
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