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[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 47 points 3 days ago

Gee, maybe if sites weren't 80% bullshit scripts and ads, MAAAAYBEEEEE, people wouldn't need adblockers so fucking much?? Crazy thought, right?

[-] higgsboson@piefed.social 10 points 3 days ago

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Most websites used to have way fewer ads and we blocked them anyway because of the ads with malware and them being annoying when they did show up.

So then people without ad blockers are shown even more ads. So then more people start to use more and more aggressive adblockers to deal with i truaivw ads, so corpos display more ads...and so on and so on.

My point is that we have tried your suggestion. The Internet in 1998 was very different.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 20 points 3 days ago

In my uneducated view, the main problem is that ads are served by third parties, instead of the domain's owner. There is zero curation because said third parties literally don't fucking care, someone paid then it gets in the rotation.

If ads were like in 1998, where the person messing with the site offered space on a specific part of the site and selected which ads would run, being responsible for them individually, offering a fixed position that didn't get in the way of the meat of the site, things wouldn't be such a shitshow. In other words, cut the ad server middleman. Yeah, lots of extra work on the maintainer and the ad-interested parties, but that'd result in a lot less blocking.

[-] Fredthefishlord 1 points 3 days ago

Unfortunately, businesses that are legit don't shop for those enough

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago

Because people no longer visit those sites as much, since "everyone is on tiktok/instagram". One of the problems of a centralized internet.

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