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Majority of Americans now use ad blockers (www.theregister.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If the ads are unobtrusive and interesting, and not clearly based on harvested personal data, I wouldn't mind.

Unfoorrrtunately...

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 6 points 4 months ago

Exactly.

I was excited for Brave when they talked about service privacy-friendly ads and sharing revenue with sites. That obviously didn't happen, but I think it is a good idea in general.

I don't mind privacy-respecting ads like sponsorships and whatnot in videos, but I absolutely cannot stand the data-harvesting ads used almost everywhere, as well as ads in services I've paid for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

There's a Dutch tech website called tweakers.net, a while ago they removed all tracking cookies and all ads are now just banners based on the current web page. I have adblocker disabled for that website and I'm happy with that