Comment Re:Just block all ads and don't worry about it (Score 1) 716
Advertising isn't evil.
People telling me about cool shit I might want to buy? That's a service. And if they've figured out enough about my behavior to advertise things I'd actually be interested in rather than random shit, that's even better. Please, please, please profile me. It was creepy the first time (ok first hundred times), but I'm over that.
If you lie in an advertisement, that's evil. If you horrendously and needlessly distract from content, that's pretty lame. But if you have a cool pitch to make in the corner of a website I frequent, that's a win-win-win. I get free content. I'm not too distracted. You get my business if you've profiled me well enough and I'm in a buying mood. The website gets paid. Who loses here?
Adblock sites that allow annoying BS that gets in your way. Or better yet, stop visiting them. Let ads in where they behave civilly.