[securityfreak]

Oh the hypocrisy. Reading about how bad ad targeting and tracking is, while being welcomed by a huge, annoying modal, covering up half of the text I’m eager to read, with a large ACCEPT button, or the opt-out button hidden behind a link on an external page. It’s like sharing those “Delete Facebook” posts, on Facebook.

[vvpan]

Hypocrisy is difficult to avoid in modern world. Otherwise we wouldn't be able to criticize things we are enmeshed in. Your argument is not invalid, but I thought I'd point out.

[jjbinx007]

I also don't appreciate auto playing video wasting all my data and battery when I'm reading on mobile.

Why can't sites just emulate newspapers of old and statically embed non tracking ads on their pages? I'll whitelist the site on my ad blocker straight away.

This shit also causes no end of hassle to those who use screen readers or who have other accessibility problems.

[securityfreak]

This is the industry standard. I wish I had a choice to either pay with my data ("free" content), or pay with money in a subscription model. Just like Zuckerberg was asked, whether he would consider a subscription model. The formula is quite simple: monthly income divided by the number of users, that came out around $11 a month, if I recall correctly. This, of course, isn't in the interest of content providers at all. With a growing user base, the unit price of an ad is growing each month. Users wouldn't agree to an increased monthly fee based on the number of users. Greed wins. I wouldn't mind ads in principle. I hate intrusive ads. Does anyone know, why the Acceptable Ads movement isn't globally spread yet? I think this could be a middle ground for advertisers and users. https://acceptableads.com