One of my first blog posts in a while, I go over Google’s recent web proposal, and point out exactly why it won’t turn out well. Hope y’all have fun with it.

  • interolivary@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    There are plenty of non-annoying ads around. When ABP (I think?) tried to introduce a non-annoying ad white list, people collectively shat a brick and decided ABP had “sold out”, and not because the list was bad but because they don’t want any ads at all, period.

    And it’s not like I love ads; I’d rather pay for services than have to see ads, but a lot of the time that’s not an option. We wouldn’t be in this mess if people were willing to either pay for services (which understandably is a problem for poorer people) or be subjected to even boring banners or video clips that don’t cover content.