People want Do Not Track, but also hate paywalls and irrelevant ads.

prepend · on Jan 12, 2018

I hate all ads. The ads I get are irrelevant anyway.

There’s this funny PR line like I like relevant ads. I don’t like ads. I don’t like the same add 10 times in one hour.

Also it’s possible to hate all three at the same time.

ethbro · on Jan 10, 2018

> People want Do Not Track, but also hate paywalls and irrelevant ads.

Do people really hate irrelevant ads?

eli · on Jan 10, 2018

I think so, though they might not always verbalize it that way.

Consider that without any sort of tracking, ads are almost necessarily ones that appeal to the lowest common denominator of the audience, because there's nothing else to go on.

electrograv · on Jan 10, 2018

Users hate irrelevant ads slightly more than they hate relevant ads -- much like how I hate being punched more than I hate being slapped.

I'd much rather avoid being in an abusive relationship to begin with: Hence, installing browsers like Brave and using search engines like DuckDuckGo -- where you can opt into breaches of privacy and advertising, rather than hoping for the slim chance of an opt-out at the benevolence of the site/ad company.

lurr · on Jan 11, 2018

More than relevant ads?

doubt it.