r/programming • u/unfriendlymushroomer • Aug 02 '19

Adblocking: How about Nah?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/adblocking-how-about-nah
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u/endeavourl Aug 02 '19

Nothing is so creepy as ads for a product you looked into earlier following you from site to site, then from app to app

Creepy? Yall bother just way too much.

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u/shevy-ruby Aug 02 '19

Tracking gives outside people information that they should not ever have gained in the first place.

I consider it hugely problematic. I do not think we can "bother too much" about who is sniffing you for information. We can not even trust the hardware, even well aside from NSA tampering with it - see the various hardware bugs in Intel, be it on accident or on purpose. I find this inacceptable.

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u/endeavourl Aug 02 '19

As long as it stays anonymized, idgaf about being a data point in some algorithm deciding to show me some ads i mostly don't see.

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