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[–] pr0nw4r 1 point 24 points (+25|-1) ago 

The last time some community I remembered enabled ads, the adware provider accidentally let slip by a trojan, infecting several computers.

At this point for me, no amount of pleading or begging will change my mind. Bring on the ad war, I am more than willing to keep track of forums, and tech things to circumvent new ad blocking tech. Because fuck you companies. Go to fucking hell.

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[–] Zetterbluntz 1 point 8 points (+9|-1) ago 

Looks like Im gonna use all my ten up votes in this thread.

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[–] discostew 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

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[–] pr0nw4r 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Haha oh wow, its still happening? That is fucking hilarious. I was only remotely aware of it happening ONCE before, on a somewhat more obscure site, 3 years ago, and it stuck with me forever, till this day. Since it keeps happening, spreading news like this is going to tilt a lot of users over the edge, like it did me those many years ago. God, that is hilarious.

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[–] 5193932? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Even without the threat of malware, ads are still a system designed to persuade and to dominate minds by interfering in people's thinking patterns. That system will be used by the sorts of people who like to influence people and are good at it. No person who did not wish to dominate others would choose to use advertising. I choose not to be dominated so I block all ads by default, and I don't expose myself to old media platforms like television or radio.

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[–] pr0nw4r 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Yea, that is a pretty fair position as well. But to me, ads to purchase goods, tech and other things are far much of the lesser evil. I mean clean ads. The problem however is that the control around them always turns into complete fucking shit, 100% of the time. If people only restricted ads to a simple jpg, with a link to a verified store inside of it that only activates when clicked. I may start having morality doubts.

But again, I too have had experience with ads and that experience tells me that even at my morality, at my level, they cannot be trusted, not even for a single second. Perhaps if it was a governmental entity, that could be sued and was transparent enough, that HAD to answer to its calls, that could be called upon with a phone and whatnot. That had enough oversight. This would be a lesser evil still.

But these things arent happening. They are basically saying "accept a 100% risk of getting infected, seeing dirty ads, or being subject to some sjw bullshit, or you are a nazi and are literally causing my children to go hungry."

So fug them. Your position is fair as well, as we do not live in communism, and your computer is your own. You are in no way obligated to have anything on it that you dont want. But these companies dont even have the moral high ground for saying that they need ads to survive as they do far more harm than good. So whatever, I am happy to stay in your camp, and to just let them die.