Wherever I go, I often see the sentiment “This website has ads, so it’s trash” pop up in conversations. And honestly I don’t quite get why. 90% of the internet has always had ads, you just scroll past them and mind your business. At least they’re personalized now so you can pick a topic you like instead of diapers and miscellanous spammy trash as there once were.

  • Izzy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Ads are the epitome of the enshitification of the internet. It corrupts the incentives to make anything online.

    > At least they’re personalized now

    This is a whole other can of worms that makes it so much worse. From data harvesting to selling your information to third parties etc… It is a privacy nightmare and rather malicious in nature. This is one of the things that FOSS (Free and open-source software) tries to remedy.