DJ Putler@lemmy.mlB to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 6か月前Favorite Firefox addon that isn't just ublock, darkreader, etc? I throw out Singlefile but you probably have thatmessage-squaremessage-square96fedilinkarrow-up1141file-text
arrow-up1141message-squareFavorite Firefox addon that isn't just ublock, darkreader, etc? I throw out Singlefile but you probably have thatDJ Putler@lemmy.mlB to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 6か月前message-square96fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarethermogel@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up17·6か月前Adnauseam Silently click-spams ads to drain their bandwidth, with the purpose of making the horrible advertising business unprofitable.
minus-squareHirom@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6か月前Adblocking is a more efficient way to make adversiting unprofitable, as it avoid wasting both yours’ and adtech’s bandwidth. Wasting resources isn’t a great strategy, even if someone else is paying for it.
minus-squaregeneva_convenience@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·6か月前A minor amount of bytes is not “wasting resources”. It is wasting ad revenue.
minus-squaretheneverfox@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6か月前It’s basically just burning through the credit they’ve paid Google and making their numbers look like the ad was effective, but conversion was low Google has been caught doing similar things to make their metrics look better This does hurt advertising in a nebulous kind of accelerationist way, but it does end up with more ad money being given to Google
minus-squaregeneva_convenience@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6か月前Indeed. This in turn devalues ads by dropping their conversion rate. Thus people won’t use Google services anymore.
minus-squarePearOfJudes@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6か月前this is built on ublock origin, so if your using it get rid of ublock origin as well.
Adnauseam Silently click-spams ads to drain their bandwidth, with the purpose of making the horrible advertising business unprofitable.
Adblocking is a more efficient way to make adversiting unprofitable, as it avoid wasting both yours’ and adtech’s bandwidth.
Wasting resources isn’t a great strategy, even if someone else is paying for it.
A minor amount of bytes is not “wasting resources”. It is wasting ad revenue.
It’s basically just burning through the credit they’ve paid Google and making their numbers look like the ad was effective, but conversion was low
Google has been caught doing similar things to make their metrics look better
This does hurt advertising in a nebulous kind of accelerationist way, but it does end up with more ad money being given to Google
Indeed. This in turn devalues ads by dropping their conversion rate. Thus people won’t use Google services anymore.
It’s both, and not a small amount of bytes.
this is built on ublock origin, so if your using it get rid of ublock origin as well.