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1. gonzo4+g4[view] [source] 2023-07-26 10:44:13
>>pabs3+(OP)
Waving that don't be evil flag proudly eh team.
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2. yreg+G4[view] [source] 2023-07-26 10:47:11
>>gonzo4+g4
I hate ads as much as anyone but providing a free service that runs ads and shares part of that income with content creators is hardly particularly evil.
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3. speedg+I5[view] [source] 2023-07-26 10:55:42
>>yreg+G4
I would accept ads more easily with if they were not a privacy disaster.

I’m watching a video about cars, sure show me the ad about this crappy car brand I will never buy. I’m reading an article about Prometheus, sure show me an ad about your greatest SaaS metrics platform that cost more per monitored machine than my machine.

No needs for cookies and tracking.

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4. tonyed+S6[view] [source] 2023-07-26 11:01:58
>>speedg+I5
>I would accept ads more easily with if they were not a privacy disaster.

Would you really? I mean I keep hearing this but it doesn't ring true to me. People don't like ads in content because it interrupts what they are trying to consume and tries to leverage them away. This seems like a far greater motive to install an ad-blocker than some hand wavy tracking that probably doesn't even work that well.

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5. shmde+Gk[view] [source] 2023-07-26 12:28:06
>>tonyed+S6
> People don't like ads in content because it interrupts what they are trying to consume and tries to leverage them away.

Here you answered it yourself why people adblock. If ads were served on either side of the holy grail layout like the good ol days it wouldnt have been such a pain in the ass.

I remember jumping on the ad-blocking wagon when google started serving their shitty ads in between scroll content, serving diseased peoples photo ( ketto.org ) and getting frighteningly accurate/curated ads of what I searched for previously. Literally fuck google for having a digital private investigator on my ass 24/7 just to sell me shit. I am gonna use ad-blocker till the end of time.

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