Emlyn O’Regan is on a roll channeling the Zeitgeist. Ad-blocking is all the rage on mobile (thanks Apple) but this move seems to have reopened some seemingly settled arguments about advertising generally.
Notably absent from this debate are the Googlers.
Advertising on the web has moved on in many people’s minds from “minor annoyance” to “fucking nuisance”. Arguments have gone from “I accept that content producers need to get paid” to “fuck the media and their stinking business model. And screw their nasty spyware and malware too!”
It seems the “content” that actually gets produced is pretty shit and that some of it really needs to go away, like, now.
Originally shared by Emlyn O’Regan
Advertisers are trying to manipulate you emotionally to get you to do something you wouldn’t otherwise do, possibly something not in your own interests. So it shouldn’t be a surprise then that they don’t care about serving up malware; it’s what they’re already doing memetically anyway. Advertising is mental malware. Ad blockers are your friend.
John Hardy Developer 