On: How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time

[ceejayoz]

Who raw-dogs the internet without an adblocker? Have some standards.

[mort96 → ceejayoz]

I use uBlock Origin (the full fat version in Firefox, not the lite version). It doesn't help, because the pop-ups aren't ads. There's one asking me if I wanna be spied on, one asking me to subscribe or sign in, and one huge one telling me that there's currently a discount on subscriptions.

[ceejayoz → mort96]

I've got uBlock Origin on Firefox desktop too, and none of those show. Turn on more of the filter lists in the settings - especially the stuff in the "Cookie notices" and "Annoyances" sections.

[Workaccount2 → ceejayoz]

The people making it still worthwhile to post content online.

[erikerikson → ceejayoz]

Rumor has it that some people saw the "ads pay for it all" business model and accepted the deal because they wanted the Internet to be sustainable.

[XorNot → erikerikson]

If you don't actually buy anything then you're not sponsoring anything.

In fact generating ad views and not purchasing things from them reduces the value of ads to the website.

[slg → XorNot]

Your logic is built on the common misconception that the only ad that has any value is the last ad you see before purchase.

[ceejayoz → erikerikson]

I mean, that's a two-sided deal. "You watch ads, you read content". But that deal has been more and more broken by the ad networks and websites; a lot of sites are unnavigable without an adblocker now.

The days of plain text Google AdWords are long, long gone.

[mikestew → ceejayoz]

Pi-hole and ad blocker, and I still repro.

[ceejayoz → mikestew]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816069