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Honestly, I'm not against ads, I understand that a site with free articles needs to pay the bills somehow. The reason I use ad block is that online ads have become so intrusive that it makes websites unusable, and the way they track you is way over the line. If ads didn't completely destroy the experience of reading a website and were reasonable in the data they collected I probably wouldn't bother with ad block.
Good take
I wouldn't even be against sharing some information so they could give me better ads
I'm not in the market for a new car. I don't need car ads.
But knowing I shop at Something Hardware a lot and they are having a spring black friday sale on the tool I've been eyeing would be nice.
Even still Something Hardware just slapping their logo in an ad is not helpful at all.
If ads were helpful they wouldn't be annoying
But that's not what they're for. They exist to influence you abd control you, not infirm you and help you collaborate.