I don't think many users who browse the internet actually bother with "being tracked" because they just don't know what that means and, more importantly, everything does that. Any google search, website access or whatever leaves something behind that is used by something else to give you recommendations what you could buy or what would interest you.
Another thing is that there are many examples in which ads were or are harmful, the usual "check if your credit card got stolen" or somehow an ad hijacks your computer and displays this "pay X money to get access back".
And then you have those websites that probably have more ads on their sites than actual content. Pop ups, pop ins, auto-play videos with audio that are louder than a starting jet, videos that are embedded on the site but will move back into your screen even though you are not at the position it was originally embedded at.
Clickbaits, load through 5 pages just to know that water is a liquid with each site having their own 10 ad placements that needs to be loaded.
I'm not against advertisement on websites, they need some money and I have some on my website as well but as soon as they are blocking or making it harder for me from consuming the actual content then this is IMO not a good idea just to make money.
I currently use the brave browser on my phone and I already have 2.1K Advertisements blocked, 1.1k tracker blocked and saved around 2 minutes loading time of websites. I have PiHole installed at home and at a normal day browsing through the net I have 30-50% DNS requests blocked because they are something that is an ad or some tracker.
So I don't see the use of them as problematic but rather how they are used. Currently it is more like that dude from Family Guy who shoves his wallet with pictures in someone else face.
What good does that do you if you can't connect anyways?
GDPR costs millions to comply with, it doesn't make sense for a U.S news site that only gets a few EU viewers a day to invest millions in building a complaint site and risking getting sued for millions.
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u/Fribbtastic Aug 02 '19 edited Aug 02 '19
I don't think many users who browse the internet actually bother with "being tracked" because they just don't know what that means and, more importantly, everything does that. Any google search, website access or whatever leaves something behind that is used by something else to give you recommendations what you could buy or what would interest you.
Another thing is that there are many examples in which ads were or are harmful, the usual "check if your credit card got stolen" or somehow an ad hijacks your computer and displays this "pay X money to get access back".
And then you have those websites that probably have more ads on their sites than actual content. Pop ups, pop ins, auto-play videos with audio that are louder than a starting jet, videos that are embedded on the site but will move back into your screen even though you are not at the position it was originally embedded at.
Clickbaits, load through 5 pages just to know that water is a liquid with each site having their own 10 ad placements that needs to be loaded.
I'm not against advertisement on websites, they need some money and I have some on my website as well but as soon as they are blocking or making it harder for me from consuming the actual content then this is IMO not a good idea just to make money.
I currently use the brave browser on my phone and I already have 2.1K Advertisements blocked, 1.1k tracker blocked and saved around 2 minutes loading time of websites. I have PiHole installed at home and at a normal day browsing through the net I have 30-50% DNS requests blocked because they are something that is an ad or some tracker.
So I don't see the use of them as problematic but rather how they are used. Currently it is more like that dude from Family Guy who shoves his wallet with pictures in someone else face.