Sweetie, I *know* I have an ad blocker.
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@silvermoon82 type of guy who gets hoodwinked by Big Adblock into installing it and is horrified when he realizes all the cool ads he's missing out on because of it
@funkula @silvermoon82 buying the wrong stuff all the time cus he missed out on being targeted with the correct products and services.
A pity.
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@funkula @silvermoon82 buying the wrong stuff all the time cus he missed out on being targeted with the correct products and services.
A pity.
@davey_cakes @silvermoon82 I'm picturing a Kelly Onion cartoon with the hapless consumer hypnotized by the wicked adblocker while mom 'n pop advertising companies weep alongside the statue of liberty
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Sweetie, I *know* I have an ad blocker. I installed it myself. Blocking your article to tell me I have an ad blocker is annoying and unnecessary, and I'm not going to turn it off for your intrusive creepy adtech infested blog.
@silvermoon82 "I am blocking the ads, pray I don't block you any further." -- Darth Vader after being shown that message.
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Sweetie, I *know* I have an ad blocker. I installed it myself. Blocking your article to tell me I have an ad blocker is annoying and unnecessary, and I'm not going to turn it off for your intrusive creepy adtech infested blog.
@silvermoon82 its wild that websites / companies demand that I load all content they push to me. They believe I am legally required to interact with their site the way they want.
Its my web browser, my house, my internet. I get to choose what I see and interact with on my computer.
If that means I disable javascript, or block ads, or run all their content through a local proxy and replace all their photos with pictures of quokkas eating mangos, that is my right. They cant stop me.
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@funkula @silvermoon82 buying the wrong stuff all the time cus he missed out on being targeted with the correct products and services.
A pity.
You joke but there are people that think it's bad for you to block ads, they would never have found this xyz product if it wasn't for targetted advertising! Try the same comment on hackernews. Just don't forget to bring popcorn.
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@silvermoon82 its wild that websites / companies demand that I load all content they push to me. They believe I am legally required to interact with their site the way they want.
Its my web browser, my house, my internet. I get to choose what I see and interact with on my computer.
If that means I disable javascript, or block ads, or run all their content through a local proxy and replace all their photos with pictures of quokkas eating mangos, that is my right. They cant stop me.
@Walker
Yup, exactly. My device, my rules. My quokka proxy.(Tell me more about the quokka proxy!)
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Sweetie, I *know* I have an ad blocker. I installed it myself. Blocking your article to tell me I have an ad blocker is annoying and unnecessary, and I'm not going to turn it off for your intrusive creepy adtech infested blog.
@silvermoon82
I'm finding my browser's "Reading mode" useful for sidestepping such banners, and also paywall crap such as the BBC uses.(Why on earth should I buy a subscription to the state-supported British Broadcasting Corporation, which gets funding from taxes on British TV owners?)
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Sweetie, I *know* I have an ad blocker. I installed it myself. Blocking your article to tell me I have an ad blocker is annoying and unnecessary, and I'm not going to turn it off for your intrusive creepy adtech infested blog.
@silvermoon82 Also, we see you still showing us images and video despite the ad blocker, so we know you know that you could show ads that you host. So we also know that if you're not doing it that way, you're part of the surveillance problem, and there's NO WAY we're removing the ad-blocker. Best you're gonna get is me selectively blocking popovers until I either read the article or your site is ruined for me forevermore. I honestly couldn't care less which result wins.
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@Walker
Yup, exactly. My device, my rules. My quokka proxy.(Tell me more about the quokka proxy!)
@silvermoon82 the quokka proxy is a project my kids would love to see, does not exist yet. They love those little animals
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@silvermoon82 The very fact that a website wants to very pointedly object to my having an ad blocker significantly lowers the odds that I'll ever visit again. Why don't they know that?
Can they see the people that don’t visit?
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