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Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette (pressgazette.co.uk)

submitted 4 days ago by 1984@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

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They call it "dark traffic" - ads that are not seen by tech-savvy users who have excellent ad blockers.

Not surprised that its growing. The web is unusable without an ad blocker and its only getting worse, and will continue to get worse every month.

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[–] mvmike@lemmy.ml 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Marketing is society's cancer.

When a company has a good product/idea, they grow organically. If I'm looking for something, it should be enough to have information available through manufacturers websites and customer opinions, there is ZERO need to shove ads down people's throats, which usually translates onto overconsumption and buying the best marketed (not the optimal) product.

So yeah, fuck marketing in general, big corporations greed and their entitlement to control the web.