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The advertising-thing always baffles me. Are you willing to pay for each and every service you just use completely for free? If not, you shouldn't see advertising as a "scourge".
I don't have much of an issue with advertising in itself
However
Online advertising nowadays is extremely obnoxious and annoying, and serves to track you, too. Add the fact that ads are free real estate for malicious actors to do whatever, and I think you can agree that they are a bigger problem than they should be.
I genuinely wouldn't mind ads if they were unobtrusive and not tracking me, but that's not the reality.
Don't forget about malvertising, that's probably a more imminent danger. If Google and other ad companies don't give enough of a shit about user to actually filter out malware ads, why should I give enough of a shit about their revenue to not use uBO?
I have an issue with advertising. I would rather have an internet with much less services and pages. We all say how much we don't need social media right. So tear it all down. Remove and create a hostile net to advertising and marketing. Steer it back towards hobbyists and open source nerds making GeoCities pages. What do we lose?
Will I miss out on marketing interns at Marvel trying to force another viral meme using one of their 300 sock puppet accounts.
Am I going to miss out on my data being harvested and giving to anyone trying to sell me starlamps they bulk purchased off ali-baba.
The crux of all the problems we all have with the internet is advertising products. It's what introduced all the data harvesting. It's why we have so much censorship. Its why all webpages and content is all the same because they all try to capture the last successful creator that sold ad space. Its why the internet is just one big data harvesting billboard that is now spilling over into the real world. So fucking kill it all. Reject marketing and advertising and lets get back to what the internet should have always been. The internet needs to be Snake Plissken'd
No lmao that's why I pirate
Yes
A better question is how you're so comfortable with every place you look containing ads