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by sonnyblarney
2691 days ago
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So 'ads are bad' but 'cyanide is bad' therefore 'ads are bad'? I'm not down with your logic. The vast, vast majority of ads are just fine and have no negative externalities. Most 'food' is fine, but you can gorge yourself to death. Cars are ok as well, even though they cause death. |
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More like "ads are bad" means that your free product with ads is also bad, just as "cyanide is bad" makes your free product laced with cyanide bad.
> The vast, vast majority of ads are just fine and have no negative externalities.
The problem is that bad ads show up basically everywhere. Sure, 99% of the ads on news websites can't infect me with malware, but there's that one that Google hasn't gotten around to banning yet that is running on every website…and even if this wasn't true, basically 100% of them track me or make my web browsing experience slower.