[TeMPOraL]

If everyone did that? Probably very positive in terms of energy and resource use, positive in terms of less things to worry about for the businesses - and very negative for all the bullshit adtech jobs that wouldn't be needed anymore.

So strongly positive, in other words.

One has to remember that marketing and advertising have a big negative-sum-game component going on, where most or all of your marginal effort to promote your product serves only to cancel out the marginal effort of your competitors to promote their products.

[nobody9999]

>If everyone did that? Probably very positive in terms of energy and resource use, positive in terms of less things to worry about for the businesses - and very negative for all the bullshit adtech jobs that wouldn't be needed anymore.

It's not just the annoyance factor, it's the bloat from ads. In fact, something like 48% of retrieved data[0], on average is ad related.

Getting rid of those ads could cut client (and server and network) energy draws significantly. And we could further reduce energy usage by not needing add-ons like ad/tracking blockers and stuff like NoScript[1].

I browse with js disabled and, unless I need to visit a particular site, I'll just close the tab if js is required -- as the bloat, the security risks and the hubris of js overuse is just too much.

[0] https://www.nextpit.com/ads-consume-half-of-your-mobile-data

[1] https://noscript.net/

Edit: fixed spacing of referenced links.