Remember When pay Cable Television Was Supposed To Be Commercial-Free?

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You youngsters won't remember that far back to late 1970's but this advertising game has been a control tool to milk the public coming and going. The internet is just the latest version of the cable tv scam.

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[–]Drewski 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Browsing the internet is a lot more tolerable with an adblocker.

[–]RedditButt 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I remember when it was considered one of the top security issues of going online to hole malicious domains that served malware/ads. It's surprising how many people can't apply the most simple fix, or simply don't care. Now the normies are like grandma with the 20 toolbars on her browser.

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

What really blows my mind is how many people want an "app" for literal webpages that you can just open in a browser tab. As if all the huge scandal of app backdoor data gathering and resale wasn't happening.

They'd rather get backdoored than have to open Safari... I truly don't get it

[–]RedditButt 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They've been successfully manipulated by these companies who encourage such behavior by making an incomplete or broken webpage, but make it work better with a piece of software to install.

Any reasonable person from before the mobile phone generation would see right through it, but devs have learned that the stigma of installing malware can be washed away so long as they design it such that it doesn't render someone's computer (or mobile device) unusable. Since our processing power has grown, this has been much easier to accomplish. Want to compile keyloggers, trackers, adware with the software these days? No problem, the end user won't even notice the lag.

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Browsing the internet without an adblocker is intolerable. Especially youtube ads.

If I was forced to have ads on all the time, I'd probably spend more time outside, ha.

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It's like those toll roads where they say "the toll will go away once the road is paid off" when they build it, and then the toll never goes away.

Everything owned by the powerful is like this one-way ratchet, it only ratchets toward greed and never goes the other way.

[–]IMissPorn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Duh, why would I pay to get commercials?

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's supposed to work thus:
If you don't pay, you have to see ads.
If you do pay, you don't have to see ads.
However, now people unwittingly accept
both to pay and to be bombarded by ads.