sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours agoLocal Brand Realizes Customers Hate Its AI Ads, Switches to Charming Homemade Ones Insteadwww.yahoo.comexternal-linkmessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1381arrow-down111
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minus-squareKlear@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·10 hours agoEither ads don’t work, and so I’m doing them a favour if I block them, or they do work and in that case it’s fucking evil mind control and you bet your ass I’m going to block them. There’s no scenario where blocking ads is not the moral choice.
minus-squareBoomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 hours agoBeyond that, ads on websites can have malicious code in them. Blocking ads isn’t just morally correct, it’s also good digital hygiene
Either ads don’t work, and so I’m doing them a favour if I block them, or they do work and in that case it’s fucking evil mind control and you bet your ass I’m going to block them. There’s no scenario where blocking ads is not the moral choice.
Beyond that, ads on websites can have malicious code in them. Blocking ads isn’t just morally correct, it’s also good digital hygiene
Correct.