• dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 months ago

    I do wonder what makes some people despise ads.

    I myself do, but I’ve never been told to or even been echo chambered (well maybe now, but not always). Going back over tens years and detested them.

    But at work some people think ad-blockers shouldn’t be a thing as it’s stealing as the internet runs on ads and I just can’t see that point of view. However valid it could be.

    I don’t want to see them all my digital life as they are on the real world. Christ I’ve seen them on the pissing motorway ffs.

    • greenskye@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      In theory, I’m fine with some ads. Useful ads in places where it makes sense (like shopping). Small, unobtrusive ads that fill up otherwise empty space. But ads are like capitalism and cancer. They just continue to grow and grow and get worse and worse until they’ve utterly destroyed the thing they were meant to support. If you let them in, it’s only a matter of time until they completely take over. No one has managed to do ‘reasonable ads’ for any great length of time.

      It’s just one of those things where in theory it sounds workable, but in practice it’s highly destructive and corrosive towards everything.

    • Isycius@lemmy.ca
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      10 months ago

      Well, I’m okay with old concept of ads. But it was them that decided that ads must double dip with customer information and it was them that decided that ads viewed by people who are engaged to the ads doesn’t count as ads that was ‘seen’.

      Continuous race to the bottom since then.