The sad, slow-motion death of Do Not Track

Posted Jul 22, 2020 20:03 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: The sad, slow-motion death of Do Not Track by josh
Parent article: The sad, slow-motion death of Do Not Track

Well, you've just heard it twice here.

I don't particularly care about ads either way (as long as they are not obtrusive), but seeing ads for databases is more interesting than seeing ads for feminine hygiene and laundry detergents. And I have actually found interesting (for me) products from targeted advertisement.

And no, I'm not working for an ad-related business.

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The sad, slow-motion death of Do Not Track

Posted Jul 22, 2020 20:26 UTC (Wed) by josh (subscriber, #17465) [Link] (4 responses)

You're now the first person I've ever seen say that. (The comment I was responding to sounded like a hypothetical.)

I get why you'd rather see targeted ads than untargeted ads, and I can even understand caring more about that than about being tracked.

Do you actually prefer that to not seeing ads at all? Or do you just not care enough to block them because they're not blocked by default?

The sad, slow-motion death of Do Not Track

Posted Jul 22, 2020 21:10 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (3 responses)

I don't care about being tracked by websites. I'm already being tracked by my cell phone company, the license plate readers, my credit card companies and so on.

I run AdBlock which deals with most of obnoxious ads, but I don't go out of my way to block JS or do anything more proactive.

I honestly don't care either way about simple text ads (like the old-style Google Ads).

The sad, slow-motion death of Do Not Track

Posted Jul 23, 2020 8:39 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (2 responses)

:-)

I ran flash-block back in the day. And I remember one conversation with a website owner (a small site I wanted to use) about his "bad taste" in running the entire web site in flash.

He was unapologetic, and I was "I'm not turning off flash-block for you", so he lost my interest. At least he KNEW flash was costing him views ...

(I had a nasty experience with a flash (and flashing) ad. As many people here know, autistic people have *major* difficulty blocking out unwanted attention-grabbing stimuli ...

Cheers,
Wol

The sad, slow-motion death of Do Not Track

Posted Jul 23, 2020 14:16 UTC (Thu) by gerdesj (subscriber, #5446) [Link] (1 responses)

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The sad, slow-motion death of Do Not Track

Posted Jul 31, 2020 13:15 UTC (Fri) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988) [Link]

I remember <marquee/>... Although I don't understant *why* I do ;)