01-02-2017, 07:28 PM
davemchine wrote:
I don't object to advertising but I do object to the AMOUNT of advertising. Some websites are 50% or more advertisements and that is simply ridiculous. I also object to tracking. I would gladly pay for quality news reporting but there is no mechanism in place to do so on any of the tech websites I visit.
Yeah, there was a thread here once with a link that listed the ratio of content to advertising. I think that something like 70% of the data on the Boston newspaper site was advertising. You can't expect people to pay for that with their data plans, especially someone like me who uses TracFone.
People also object to the aggressive and intrusive way that advertising is done on websites.
I think that most of the extensions I use are designed to stop websites from doing things I object to. I wish someone would come up with an extension that would kill modal overlays.