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".

[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] ruination@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

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?

[–] explodicle@local106.com 2 points 1 year ago

Yes

[–] SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 1 points 1 year ago

A better question is how you're so comfortable with every place you look containing ads