Online tracking and ads too - do you use any blockers?
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@scottalanmiller said:
Biggest problem with blocking ads is that ads are the most obvious, easy to identify form of marketing. Take that away and marketing must because more insidious. Instead of running a paid ad, you get vendors paying for fake reviews or for discussions about them to only be positive and everything else to be edited or whatever. Or news articles to actually be ads. Things that most people have no ability to identify.
We have that already, so what would be different?
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@Dashrender said:
Google is doing this as well, it's called Google Contributor. You have to pay a minimum of $5/month to have some fewer amount of ads (no clue how good the different levels are).
Does this money go to the sites you visit or Google?
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@Dashrender said:
RojoLoco - are you willing to pay all of the websites you visit so they don't have to use ads to make the money needed to have those websites?
That right there is the rub. I don't mind static none blocking/interfering ads. But the advertisers know that those ads are skipped over 99.99% of the time or more.
The big 4 network stations (ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox) are all ad based stations. Of course now days the cable and satellite companies pay them too, but the majority of their money comes from advertisers. And it's a medium where it works well enough.
So I don't have an issue with their being ads on the page. But when an ad free page takes .7 seconds to download and an ad riddled page takes 45+ seconds even on 50+ Mbit/s internet connections, we have a problem.
"All those sites I visit" that aren't already subscription based (netflix, et al.) can get their scrilla from everyone else. I refuse to participate in the ad-based dumbing down of the planet. I never visit those TV sites you mentioned (fox, abc, etc), so I feel no guilt. Why should I feel bad if an industry I would see burned alive doesn't get 0.0000472% of their "due" revenue because I'm smarter than their ads?
FK YOUR ADS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FK THEM RIGHT IN THE A$$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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@MattSpeller said:
@Dashrender said:
Google is doing this as well, it's called Google Contributor. You have to pay a minimum of $5/month to have some fewer amount of ads (no clue how good the different levels are).
Does this money go to the sites you visit or Google?
The sites you visit, otherwise what would be the point.
Instead of seeing an add you see some simple graphic, which apparently after a while you'll realize is the indication that an ad was not displayed, and the placeholder is there instead.
What I don't know or understand is how you're tracked so the Google ads are replaced.. do you have to be logged into chrome, does it only work with Chrome, etc???
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@RojoLoco Hello RojoLoco and welcome to our webstore!
From your web history we've determined you'd be interested in... astroglide
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@MattSpeller said:
@RojoLoco Hello RojoLoco and welcome to our webstore!
From your web history we've determined you'd be interested in... astroglide
Nope, I use the CVS brand.... but close
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@MattSpeller said:
OMG and one of the suggested products features @MattSpeller riding an inflatable T-Rex....
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@RojoLoco "Inflatable Dinosaur T-REX Adult Fancy Dress Costume"
I'd hate to see the less fancy version, good lord
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@MattSpeller said:
@RojoLoco "Inflatable Dinosaur T-REX Adult Fancy Dress Costume"
I'd hate to see the less fancy version, good lord
But why, oh why, was that suggested on the 55 gallons of lube page???????
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@RojoLoco ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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@RojoLoco said:
@MattSpeller said:
OMG and one of the suggested products features @MattSpeller riding an inflatable T-Rex....
WTH it's not orange.
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@DustinB3403 said:
@RojoLoco said:
@MattSpeller said:
OMG and one of the suggested products features @MattSpeller riding an inflatable T-Rex....
WTH it's not orange.
You have to order the "warming" lube to get the orange barrel....
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@RojoLoco said:
uBlock origin is great. It blocks pandora ads once you add the right filter lists, and it is easier to add custom blocking. AdBlock Plus has gotten iffy when you right click -> block element... sometimes it works, sometimes not. uBlock lets you block it all.
AB+ is a bit too specific. In that it blocks a specific url, so sites that have rotating ads can still get through.
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@nadnerB said:
@RojoLoco said:
uBlock origin is great. It blocks pandora ads once you add the right filter lists, and it is easier to add custom blocking. AdBlock Plus has gotten iffy when you right click -> block element... sometimes it works, sometimes not. uBlock lets you block it all.
AB+ is a bit too specific. In that it blocks a specific url, so sites that have rotating ads can still get through.
SO by a "bit too specific" you mean a "bit too useless?"
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@scottalanmiller said:
@nadnerB said:
@RojoLoco said:
uBlock origin is great. It blocks pandora ads once you add the right filter lists, and it is easier to add custom blocking. AdBlock Plus has gotten iffy when you right click -> block element... sometimes it works, sometimes not. uBlock lets you block it all.
AB+ is a bit too specific. In that it blocks a specific url, so sites that have rotating ads can still get through.
SO by a "bit too specific" you mean a "bit too useless?"
No, not at all. If you don't mind some ads but object to a specific one, then it's perfect.
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Interesting.
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Also, using a 1, 2 combo with Ghostery, is very helpful. There are more nasties than just ads buried in sites
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@nadnerB said:
There are more nasties than just ads buried in sites
This is one of primary reasons for wanting to block this junk!
