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There are so many reasons to block ads. Aesthetics alone. Protecting your valuable time. Consenting to watching an ad is not the same as consenting to your entire life being tracked and monitored.

But the most important issue is that as long as malware can spread through ads (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvertising), everyone should be blocking all ads.



And instead paying for services if there's the option, right?

Or should we just continue consuming people's services and effort while blocking what's sometimes their only revenue stream?

I'd rather not use a service if it has ads and I can't remove them, instead of block them and make everyone else's experience worse.


Yeah it's gotten so bad that the FBI recommends an ad-blocker as a means to protect yourself from malicious sites.

https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221?=8324278624


Given that neither Facebook nor Google can appropriately police the content of their own ad networks (to the extent that they're the two biggest purveyors of malware and scams on the internet - in this rando's opinion), there is no moral argument against blocking ads.

In fact, not blocking internet advertising is a security risk.

If they get their house in order my opinion may change, but there's currently no business reason for them to change their existing lax systems; no pressure or threat from regulation to hold them liable for what they allow on their advertising networks.


Everyone should block ads and everyone who can pay for the use of the platform should.




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