[HN Gopher] A cartoon butt clenching a bar of soap has invaded m...
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A cartoon butt clenching a bar of soap has invaded my online ads
Author : stalfosknight
Score : 15 points
Date : 2024-09-14 22:01 UTC (59 minutes ago)
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| LorenDB wrote:
| This is a perfect reason to install uBlock Origin.
| slater wrote:
| Sidenote: your site's SCSS file 404s -
| https://lorendb.dev/css/main.scss (Firefox, macOS)
| mindslight wrote:
| Seriously. If you have enough time and self actualization to
| complain about the content of online ads, then you have more
| than enough time to install an ad blocker and be done with that
| particular form of malware.
| Veuxdo wrote:
| This might be a fine solution for individuals, but of course
| won't help the ads/publishing industry recover from its current
| death spiral.
| bastawhiz wrote:
| It's not intended to help anyone who runs ads.
| Wowfunhappy wrote:
| What is your suggested economic model for internet content?
| Do you prefer paywalls?
| QuadmasterXLII wrote:
| What's the economic model for hacker news commenters?
| Wowfunhappy wrote:
| Commenting on Hacker News is fun. But I'm really glad the
| internet has professional journalists as well.
| jszymborski wrote:
| Yes
| dash2 wrote:
| I have exactly this problem of gross online ads, sometimes
| featuring ways to clear my bowels by eating/not eating bananas.
| The graphics are, well, graphic.
|
| I never click ads and I turn off personalisation wherever
| possible. Could it be that the system is punishing me somehow? Is
| this some dystopian algorithm?
| Veuxdo wrote:
| > I turn off personalisation wherever possible
|
| Think about it: if the ad auction house knows nothing about
| you, then you'd expect to only get least-common-denominator
| ads. Everyone has a butt, after all.
| fallingsquirrel wrote:
| A saner fallback would be to target based on the content
| (like advertisers did for centuries before the internet).
|
| If someone's reading an article about guitars, there's a good
| bet they'll respond more favorably to a guitar ad than to a
| picture of someone's ass. Common sense was a casualty in the
| transition to the internet.
| whartung wrote:
| I've always figured that these are the lowest common
| denominator form of ads.
|
| "Since we have no idea of who you are, this is the drek that
| targeted to you -- i.e. 'everybody'".
|
| This is also the reason I don't log in to YouTube, and if I do
| find I video, I open it in a "private tab".
|
| If I don't suddenly my "feed" explodes with even more stuff I
| was barely interested in when I wanted to watch the video in
| the first place.
|
| Never let it know you might be casually interested in anything
| borderline controversial, or you'll be overwhelmed with every
| fringe dingbat clickbait video that's, perchance, even barely
| related to the video you watched.
| sen wrote:
| Complaining about annoying ads while having ads literally _every_
| paragraph.
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