It would be interesting to calculate the user's value of the time wasted on this shit.

My guess is that online advertising has a negative return for society as a whole. It should be illegal.

I wonder how much money people have wasted buying my data. I have ad blockers everywhere, I never see a single ad or sponsored message, if their system actually works it should be marked worthless.

You can't generate ad revenue from me if I have ad blockers.

You use an android because you like it

I use an android to drive advertising revenue down

We are not the same

This feels like a good post to mention AdNauseam! For anyone who wants an adblocker that helps more than just you! It basically blocks ads but also sends a click request to every ad that should have been loaded. The data being sent with this request contains spoofed garbage data that makes the tracking data sets lose value. It also keeps a funny metric on how much the estimated cost for your clicks is :)

The top 10% of profiles: heavy desktop users — generate 43% of all advertiser value

Helps explain why Microsoft has started injecting ads into the OS so aggressively.

Im priceless. Or worthless.

Well let's see...

• I've used Firefox with uBlock Origins pretty much as soon as uBlock Origins came out. I'm now using Librewolf.
• Im using a YouTube extention that automatically skips sponsers and adreads.
• I don't use Google for my searches. Haven't for over 10 years.
• I use Spotify on my PC, with the Bash Spot X patch.
• My OS is also Linux, so no built-in ads.
• On my phone I have AdAway installed.
• I patched my YouTube app with ReVanced Manager, giving me block against ads, sponsers, and adreads.
• I don't use Spotify on my phone, instead opting to download music I bought from artists (typically Bandcam) or get through Soulseek.
• I use Firefox on my phone too, with uBlock Origins. Did that for nearly as long as my PC.
• I also don't use Google for my searches there.

I'm very curious about what my value to Google is, considering all that.

High-value, low-value

😑

The average American generates about $1,605 a year in advertising value. A 35- to 44-year-old man in Bozeman, MT, without children, using a desktop and making high-value corporate searches, generates an estimated $17,929.30. An 18- to 24-year-old father in Fort Smith, AR, using an Android phone and making low-value searches, generates $31.05.

Just imagine how much people have to buy through ads to justify this amount of ad spending.

Imagine if humanity would spend all this energy and effort into things that would actually benefit humanity world wide. Medicine and medical personnel, food research and production, education, housing, care for the elderly....

Oh man, this world could be so nice...

And the assholes only give me back like 2 bucks.

Tax them and turn that into a UBI.

That might be what they pay Google to advertise to those groups. But do they manage to get that much profit out of those advertisements from those groups?

I know it is not true to say that "advertising doesn't work on me" but I wonder if the revenue the advertisers are getting out of that professional man in MT adds up to anywhere close to $17,929/yr worth of sales of their products/services.

I've made it as hard as i can to track me. And I will continue to do so. Fuck advertisers.

Don't wanna see you slacking doing low-value searches! Brb writing a a script generating some high-level net traffic, so they waste more money on me.

I need to start poisioning my data more and make it stupid expensive to advertise to me.

I expect my price is through the floor. Living in Ireland with ad blocker enabled and Google set to disable ad tracking and personalized ad delivery. Even when I use their YouTube app and am compelled to see ads, many of them are bottom of the barrel garbage for pay to win games / casinos and outright scams because Google can't match a more lucrative campaign against me.

It's funny because I also listen to podcasts on Spotify and the podcasts are so bereft of matching campaigns the ad break starts and stops almost instantly. The only one that doesn't is Behind the Bastards which repeatedly inflicts 2 minutes of plugs for other Cool Zone Media podcasts that I'm habituated to auto skip through.

Wild that one of the most desirable regions, Durham NC, is within 1 hr of one of the least, Greensboro NC.

What defines advertising value to calculate this?

I dont buy anything online, Amazon or otherwise. And I dont engage with any ads unless by mistake. I suppose there is value in market research itself but nobody is making any sales revenue off somebody like me.

What's really crazy is that other than the fact all of this data is collected about you and freely sold among all these companies while it's nearly impossible to see your own information or try to correct inaccuracies. It's like a social credit score and online systems are very good at following people between devices.