I have no idea what the practical ramifications of this complaint means...
What exactly is the fear of "intrusive tracking and spying"? What does it mean?
Are you scared that you're now going to get ads that target your demographic, such as motherboards, instead of ads that don't target your demographic, such as Alzheimers drugs?
I don't understand the problem with this.
If that's not the fear, then state the ultimate practical effect of what you fear, because right now it sounds a lot like a "made-up-in-your-mind problem that will never, ever affect you negatively".
I don't need to justify my right to privacy. All you need to know is that I don't want my browsing habits tracked and correlated across virtually every site I visit, by a small handful of companies that have nothing to do with the content I am seeking. The burden is not on me to justify why I disagree with these practices.
The burden is on you to justify your right to privacy. Otherwise it just makes you look bad, as if you're trying to defend indefensible actions. Remember, you're visiting THEIR sites. They aren't visiting your sites. They have something you want when you visit their sites, and you have to offer something in return.
If you're unable to justify yourself, then companies (both advertisers and media publishers) will proceed as they wish. Your privacy is not their concern. You need to make it their concern.
Right now ad blockers are just a mere stepping stone for these companies to track you. When they proceed with native ads (among many other options), it's going to be really difficult for you to block them.
Do you want these companies to move forward to their next step in tracking you?
>The burden is on you to justify your right to privacy.
Privacy is a human right. I am the only one who gets to decide what information I divulge about myself, except in the very small set of circumstances where my right to privacy has to be balanced against the human rights of others.
Nobody should ever have to justify one's right to privacy.
> Nobody should ever have to justify one's right to privacy.
You always need to justify you rights, since you should never assume those with power over you - the ones that grant you your rights - are willing to do that.
With all due respect, advertising networks have been tracking people for far longer than there have been ad blockers and privacy guards. This category of programs was literally created in response to the existence of such networks. Tracking companies will do as they please, regardless of any steps I take to defend my data and my privacy.
The burden is on the shoulders of website operators to present meaningful alternatives to intrusive tracking as their core monetization strategy. It is obvious that those who do not will wither and die. Such is the way of capitalism.
The onus is not mine to explain myself for using privacy protection programs. It is theirs to recognize this reality and to pivot, or die.
That would certainly be one way to pivot, and kudos to those that do. However, I suspect that the percentage of adblocking users will only continue to grow, giving this particular solution fairly diminishing returns.
> ads that target your demographic, such as motherboards, instead of ads that don't target your demographic, such as Alzheimers drugs
Surely this can be done based on the page the advert loads on, rather than the user? It would give a pretty reasonable approximation of "stuff the user is interested in" (I mean, they're reading this page) without the ick-factor of knowing they were 25-35, Male, located in Zanzibar, etc.
The meta-keywords used by Google could easily be utilised for this.
What exactly is the fear of "intrusive tracking and spying"? What does it mean?
Are you scared that you're now going to get ads that target your demographic, such as motherboards, instead of ads that don't target your demographic, such as Alzheimers drugs?
I don't understand the problem with this.
If that's not the fear, then state the ultimate practical effect of what you fear, because right now it sounds a lot like a "made-up-in-your-mind problem that will never, ever affect you negatively".