I read over on CNET that companies are getting aggressive in their dealings with users who dare to use ad-blocking software to keep their privacy intact.
Hey, if they don’t like ad-blockers, then they should get the monster that they created back in the cage and throw away the key. Better yet, slay their creation and come up with a less intrusive and privacy-invading way to make money.
Any ad that drains the batteries on our devices is evil. Any ad that uses up more bandwidth than necessary is evil. Any ad that places a cookie on our computers without expressed permission from us is evil. Any ad (or web site) that uses trackers is evil. Any search engine that saves our searches to profile us is evil (and very annoying and worrying). Forcing ads on us should be an online crime.
I have medical training, and sometimes I have to look up the names of medications or conditions and what the common treatments are. No, I am not RH-negative. No, I do not have an STI or Zika. No, I do not have pancreatic cancer. No, I do not have a blood disease either, nor do I have a penile or vaginal problem, or anything. Nor do I have autism or autism-spectrum. No, I do not have high-altitude sickness. Yet I get carpet bombed with ads promoting sexual health, cancer treatment centers, condoms and other stuff that I have no interest in.
That’s why I started using ad-blockers and browsers that do not allow tracking. And if they don’t want our interest or traffic, we’ll find the information elsewhere and spend our money elsewhere too, in excess of the money they’re making off their ads.
Instead of going after users who hate ads and trackers and who don’t want a footprint online, they should fix their own problem by themselves and leave us out of it. Blaming US for THEIR problem is wrong.
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