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0 pointsCthulhu_11mo ago0 comments

And they were actually praised when they did start doing ads because they weren't as obtrusive as the existing heavy duty in-your-face Flash animations and they were relevant to a user.

It quickly turned Google into the biggest / most valuable internet company of all time ever, and it still wasn't enough for them.

I've had adblockers running for as long as I can remember so I'm blisfully unaware of how bad it is now... mostly, I don't have adblockers on my phone and some pages are unusable.

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throwaway29011mo ago

When ads are too many blame website owners, as far as I know Google does not hijack websites to put more ads.

Ads done right is the least bad way of supporting free stuff for people who don't want to pay the cost. But people with ubo punish all sites regardless of whether they do ads nicely or not.

You are right now writing in a thread about upcming future where promotion is embedded in the content so that content itself is one big ad disguised as whatever. Do you really think it's a better alternative to clearly delimited and unmistakeable ads?

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throwaway29011mo ago

When ads are too many blame website owners, as far as I know Google does not hijack websites to put more ads.

Ads done right is the least bad way of supporting free stuff for people who don't want to pay the cost. But people with ubo punish all sites regardless of whether they do ads nicely or not.

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