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My computer blocks any ads that move or make noise but I still strive to be ethical in my ad blocking. It doesn't seem fair to me to block advertising on any advertising supported site I regularly visit.
On many of the sites I regularly visit I can pay money to make the advertising go away. There are a few technical sites I regularly visit that don't offer these kind of no-advertising paid subscriptions but their ads are highly targeted and static, not any more obnoxious than you'd see in a printed trade journal.
Sites that demand I turn my ad blocker off and then overwhelm me with obnoxious advertising I simply block entirely. This applies to television too.
On Edit: I turned off my ad blocking and logged out just to see what I'd get. Apparently I'm looking to buy an upscale home in an LGBT friendly city, I'm interested in buying some active wear from a company that is enthusiastically woke and DEI, and I might consider getting the latest and greatest cell phones when I sign up with T-mobile.
There was an ad for car financing too, but I've only done that twice in my life, once when I was a foolish young man, and again with my wife when we bought a used minivan after we decided our little Toyota was getting too crowded with children and dogs. That was nearly thirty years ago.
The advertising algorithms got the enthusiastically woke and DEI part right, but I'm not interested in moving, buying cars I can't pay for with cash, my clothes are mostly jeans-and-teeshirts, and I'm not giving up my old flip-phone until it stops working.
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