Goodbye!

[heidentweet@todon.eu]

@alternativeto This is nice! But from the AltText it isn't clear what's the humorous goodbye exchange.

Company: person with computer head: welcome to my website. Here are some adds.
user, smiling: I won't see them because I've addblocker.
Company computer face thinking he's smart: well, you need to turn off adblocker to continue.
User, still smiling: Goodbye.
Computer face left standing with open mouth.

#Alt4you #AltText

[troy_frizzell@mstdn.social]

@alternativeto

It's a really big internet and there are a whole bunch of places to go and be entertained, informed, provoked, whatever-you're-trying-to-do.

[mimiwhiskers@mastodon.social]

@alternativeto Once upon a time, I wanted to keep the ads on so I can support the websites I visit.... Then I got a virus and it was like, f@& that, and have been using adblock ever since. Using the internet without adblock, is no different than having unprotected sex.

[guigsy@mstdn.social]

@alternativeto I was ok with websites serving me adverts to generate revenue. Which is how ads used to work.

But it's a level beyond that now, and far more nefarious. Websites now use trackers dressed as adverts, so third parties can collate the info, invade my privacy and flog that data in a way that could be used against me.

They broke the social agreement, so I'm not accepting their ads or their cookies, and I'm blocking their trackers whenever I can.

[bhaugland@mastodon.social]

@alternativeto It always amazes me how salesmen think people actually want to talk to them

[david_bardos@mementomori.social]

@alternativeto This would also be important to consider.

[bagofnails@mastodon.social]

@alternativeto

I don't have Ad Blocker. It's not perfect but the on off switch works fairly well.

[dps910@social.freedombits.org]

@alternativeto archive.is come in clutch sometimes, especially with those articles you have to pay to read.

[sascha_raubal@muenchen.social]

@alternativeto
That's me.

[sascha_raubal@muenchen.social]

@david_bardos
Yep! 👍
@alternativeto

[webhat@infosec.exchange]

@vellathelatias @alternativeto alternatively, blocks all scripts

[elduvelle@neuromatch.social]

@alternativeto
Every ad that we see makes an imprint in our brain. It uses our own brain resources to store itself in memory, in the connections between our own neurons, because that's what our brains naturally do.
Who knows, it might even be consolidated in there and compete with actual, useful memories of our real lives.. Biasing the competition in their favour, ads are designed to attract our attention and stick in our memory as much as possible.

Like cigarettes rot our lungs, it's very likely ads rot our brains.. We should protect ourselves from them and set up boundaries while we can!

[mrbruno@mstdn.social]

@alternativeto That's me!!