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.

  • nonentity@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Advertising needs to become as socially acceptable as smoking.

    It arbitrary pollutes any environment it’s conducted in, and causes secondary harms to non-participants by incentivising insecure hoarding of private information with the intent to better target individuals.

    • demunted@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Agreed left unchecked it is horrible, one of the darkest pervasive elements of capitalism, used in a manipulative manner. We’ve reached astounding understanding of human psyche and are using that knowledge with advertising to control people’s subconscious. It’s disgusting.