I still think targeted ads should be illegal. I would accept static ads that are based on the content of the site rather than me as a compromise.
So like if I’m looking at example.com/cool-bikes you can show me bike ads. You don’t need to know who I am or track me.
It’s good enough for the past few decades (centuries?) it’s good enough for now. The Superbowl doesn’t serve a different ad to every viewer.
Yeah or bike adjacent stuff… helmet, chain lube… hell even a biking vacation… but stop with the profiling
Advertising needs to become as socially acceptable as smoking.
It indiscriminately pollutes the environments it’s projected in to, and causes secondary harms to non-participants by incentivising the mass hoarding of personal information which is uneconomical to appropriately secure.
Don’t people use ad blockers? If not, learn how to use one instead to complain.
I never see any ads.
Yeah I see seeing ads as a skill issue tbh
Here’s what I do about it:
Firefox plus uBlock Origin is what you can do about it. I hardly ever see any ads. SponsorBlock is great if you watch youtube too.
Because US capitalism.
What really annoys me is the endless stream of scam, “earn money fast with 1 simple trick” ads
It’s literally a scam every single time and trying to report those fall into deaf ears (or blind algorithms) because hey, they’re paying to be shown, why should any high ranking executive care? “Oh, I can’t be held responsible, sorry!”
The reason is programmatic advertising and Google has 90% market share there. Btw, it helps spreading misinformation too.
For example, Google Chrome has stopped the use of auto-play video.
Even setting aside ads, that was virtually always something that I did not want.
If websites like CNN want someone to watch video, put the video up with autoplay off. If someone wants to watch it, they can start it playing.
But then they can’t
force you to watchclaim that you watched the ad at the start of the video for that sweet advertiser revenue.
What ads?
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Remember the purpose of ads is to advertise a product that might potentially sell. Quality control isn’t always a priority it’s capitalism after all. At the end of the day, if you just want to block ads, just block ads.
there are products that I would buy if I would know they exist but I don’t because they don’t have enough money to do advertisment. It’s inherently an unfair competition. The only ads that I would like to see is a tematical search for all of the buyable products and services.
--- that might potentially sell +++ that is pushed with money
Because it’s “too hard” for websites to have proper relationships with advertisers vs just signing onto an ad network.
The AI generated car ads are just awful, I made a post about it:
What can we do about it? Is this some grandpa’s first time on the internet?