I was thinking I would probably choose to keep my ad blocker off if there was some way for me to choose only local advertisers or American(or your country) made. I would even let them use geo location to make it happen.
86 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 28 Sep
I'd take my ad blocker off if:
  • the ads weren't flashy eyesores
  • I only ever got one ad per page
  • the ads were not harvesting any personal data to determine what to show me
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I keep my blocker off when i get paid for the ads i get served. Meet Slice. It's not huge, but it feels a little bit fairer.
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ad blockers don't just block visible ads, those brokers don't need to know your browsing habits
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If ads weren't such a toss-up on malice and distraction I'd probably turn it off more often. But I don't, because I can't trust ad agencies to secure their resources so they don't get poisoned my something malicious.
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ublock isn't adblock. ublock is badblock, and it so happend that ads and trackers have got mixed with malware.
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I use brave browser and it does the work. I'm happy ass are blocked I don't wanna see that I didn't plan to
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I wouldnt mind taking the ad blocker off it the ad didnt interfere with what l was doing. More than half the time it gets in the way of reading the article or watching a video.
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It's not the advertising I mind, it's the dragnet surveillance that underpins it.
And completely unnecessarily -- we had over a century of advertising which didn't rely on surveillance which worked very well for businesses and their customers. The idea all advertising needs surveillance is a myth.
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