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by jlarocco 3407 days ago
Maybe I added it at some point, but "criteo.com" is blocked by uBlock on my machine.

Anyway, it's baffling to me that people still defend web advertising. That "industry" is far sleazier and shadier than spammers, but for some reason people here will defend web ads.

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I think most people here are defending "web ads qua web ads" (i.e. a picture in a box on a page that doesn't track you or start dancing around your screen), not the realities of most web advertising today. I think it's sad that business models that are based on non-intrusive web ads are becoming increasingly infeasible, but I certainly don't blame users for the current state of affairs.