Maybe in 1999 I was still with you, but they’ve continually shown, not just disregard for out concerns, but a flat out “fuck you” malicious adversarialism.
So fuck all advertisers at this point. Every fucking last one of them.
I will block them every way I can. I will poison their tracking. I will do everything I can to fuck with them.
Don’t be an apologist for their bullshit.
And if you bring up the “well websites will cost you then”. That’s a whole lotta not my problem. If you want to host a server, that’s your problem how to pay for it.
I currently pay for my internet, and you want me to subsidize your ads by paying my ISP to deliver those ads.
I also pay for my own VPS, and related services, for stuff I want to do, such as provide some services to family and friends. Should I serve ads to them to subsidize my server costs?
I don’t think there’s a reality where advertising disappears entirely. However I do think there is one where advertising is simply less-invasive, which is what companies like Mozilla, Brave, and Ad Nauseum advocate for.
@helenslunch that’s what Mozilla is doing with their “less intrusive advertising” they’re tracking their users at the same time.
“Mozilla has enabled a so-called privacy preserving attribution (PPA) feature that turned the browser into a tracking tool for websites without directly telling its users.”
Basically. Insultingly, it was built alongside, and in some collaborative measure with, Google. (A bunch of companies bigger than Mozilla, and a bunch of ad networks, are all teaming up for the PATCG).
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Fuck advertisers at this point.
Maybe in 1999 I was still with you, but they’ve continually shown, not just disregard for out concerns, but a flat out “fuck you” malicious adversarialism.
So fuck all advertisers at this point. Every fucking last one of them.
I will block them every way I can. I will poison their tracking. I will do everything I can to fuck with them.
Don’t be an apologist for their bullshit.
And if you bring up the “well websites will cost you then”. That’s a whole lotta not my problem. If you want to host a server, that’s your problem how to pay for it.
I currently pay for my internet, and you want me to subsidize your ads by paying my ISP to deliver those ads.
I also pay for my own VPS, and related services, for stuff I want to do, such as provide some services to family and friends. Should I serve ads to them to subsidize my server costs?
I don’t think there’s a reality where advertising disappears entirely. However I do think there is one where advertising is simply less-invasive, which is what companies like Mozilla, Brave, and Ad Nauseum advocate for.
@helenslunch @BearOfaTime Advocating for less intrusive advertising while tracking their users.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/mozilla-hit-with-privacy-complaint-over-firefox-user-tracking-2024-09-25/
What?
@helenslunch that’s what Mozilla is doing with their “less intrusive advertising” they’re tracking their users at the same time.
“Mozilla has enabled a so-called privacy preserving attribution (PPA) feature that turned the browser into a tracking tool for websites without directly telling its users.”
Not really. The browser is tracking the user. All user activity remains local in the browser.
https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2024/08/22/ppa-update/
Ah, it’s just google’s privacy sandbox. Which imo is worse than straight up tracking everything on their end. It puts people at serious risk
Basically. Insultingly, it was built alongside, and in some collaborative measure with, Google. (A bunch of companies bigger than Mozilla, and a bunch of ad networks, are all teaming up for the PATCG).
You just intentionally omitted a bunch of pertinent information…
You said
The pertinent information is that you were incorrect. That should be a big enough red flag for you to reevaluate how safe and secure you think PPA is.