On: I left the ad industry because of data tracking

[geggam]

I used to work for an ad company, ad blockers really dont stop the tracking. They just make the internet usable :)

[DailyHN → geggam]

Can you better explain this usability?

When a site is littered with ads, the content probably sucks, too.

Could the ads make the internet more usable? For example, they help evaluate the content before reading it and leading one to find better quality content sooner.

[geggam → DailyHN]

Every time I use a browser without noscript and ublock origin I feel inundated with all sorts of marketing material. Its distracting.

I used to simply switch to a CLI browser to google for things but these days its hit or miss as javascript is so heavily used.

Videos... auto run videos need to be abolished as well.