Here's what I don't get: Why not just block the ads, which has two benefits:
1. Reduces profitability of advertising companies
2. Makes browsing the web sane (not to mention 30000% more pleasant)
And then after you've blocked all the ads you can just search for $subject_or_product_genre_that_interests_you, on your own terms, without worrying about scumbags tracking you and mining crypto via javascript in your browser?
I do block ads in my browser. I only have them in the apps on my phone, where they are unblock able anyway.
Also, a lot of sites I like exist because of ads. If everyone had them off, they wouldn't exist anymore.
And because I wouldn't even think to search for those topics in the first place. It's the act of seeing that ad that gets me to start thinking about that topic in the first place.
1. Reduces profitability of advertising companies 2. Makes browsing the web sane (not to mention 30000% more pleasant)
And then after you've blocked all the ads you can just search for $subject_or_product_genre_that_interests_you, on your own terms, without worrying about scumbags tracking you and mining crypto via javascript in your browser?