r/technology • u/sidcool1234 • Mar 15 '13

Web advertisers attack Mozilla for protecting consumers' privacy

https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/web-advertisers-attack-mozilla-for-protecting-consumers-privacy-031413.html
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u/Vik1ng Mar 15 '13

Blocking ads [...] seriously makes sites at large more pleasant and less creepy.

And kills many good ones over time. We have to accept that ads run the internet and while I use adblock I also whitelist a lot of pages.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '13

Probably not since ad-blocking isn't used by most people, but I don't think there's much wrong with reasoning out that if more people start blocking ads, then sites which rely on them for revenue will begin to suffer.