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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

But the venn diagram of the group of people who take voluntary surveys and the group you want to advertise to have no overlap.

The problem with ads is that we're barely removed from the era of all ads being malicious trojans if you clicked one. All ads are still malicious, just less insidious. They'll silo you off into an echo chamber rather than brick your computer. Some will still brick your computer though.

I block ads because I don't want to see ads, but I don't want to see ads because I don't trust any of them. Until they fix that, they'll stay blocked. I don't care if you're Google or some boutique website, I'll block them all.