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LTK:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 05 Aug 2016, 20:48 ---An adblocker for all of my senses. There aren't many things in this world that I'd like to see burn irrespective of the consequences, but the advertising industry is one of them.
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I understand the sentiment, but given the vast number of services that are mostly, if not fully paid for by the advertising industry, the consequences are going to be far more severe than you realise. Everything you now use for free - Google, news websites, webcomics, blogs, file hosting - will have to become pay-to-use, meaning small, start-up websites are going to be entirely unsustainable until they attract a significant paying audience. The internet will be dominated even more strongly by services of large corporations with the money to sustain them and the reach to attract enough users.
So, as annoying as they are, for the moment I am thankful for the advertising industry for enabling the richness of free online communities and services we currently have.
hedgie:
In this case, I was referring to meatspace. I don't really watch tv, so commercials are irrelevant to me, but everywhere, the signal to noise ratio is terrible because of adverts everywhere. Online, I refuse to turn off my adblocker for *anything*. It's just too much of a personal risk.
Loki:
new entry: mosquitoes
enough said
MrBlu:
Get rid of the mosquitoes. Fuck em
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sitnspin:
http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-04-04/why-famous-biologist-wants-eradicate-killer-mosquitoes
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