Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer thinks that you don’t know what you’re missing if you use an ad-blocker.
Pop-ups, huge ads, ads that din’t go away or trick me into clicking, animated Flash ads, audio-banners, and video ads that start on their own, especially if tied to my browsing history and what they think are my interests,
actually improve the experience of using the Web rather than hurt it.
Without being tracked and having my data sold to the highest bidder and without ads all over the place, there is little doubt that my experience on the Web would be much worse. After all, that’s why I went online in the first place: to get targeted by ads. LOL.
A person not in touch with reality. I wonder if she goes through all the ads when watching tv or just switches channel or perhaps even using fast forward them when seeing a recorded program or movie, just like every person does.
I stopped visiting sites that have ad overlays on the left, sliding banners on the top, video broadcasts on the upper right and some even have a sort of clickable background that sometimes grabs me when using a trackpad or touch device. I just wanted to scroll the page!
I’m sure that, just like me, people stops visiting such sites.
I even stopped using browsers that do not clean history and cookies on exit.