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An advertising industry worker's take on adblockers
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this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2024
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I work in an advertising-adjacent field (we won't do any skeevy data-harvesting stuff, but still, ads) and I barely use any of the main social media sites, have an adblocker enabled on my router, use uBlock, GrapheneOS for my phone, Linux with a bunch of hardening, a VPN that's always on etc.
My work computer doesn't have any of that 'cause I need to be able to see ads on it, but sometimes if I forget and just browse around on my work computer with no ad protection... holy fuck it always surprises me how awful the internet is.
I don't understand why companies don't have network-wide adblockers on their employee systems and intranets. Used to be in the Air Force, ads everywhere. Now work for a contractor, still ads everywhere.
Don't they know that blocking ads can speed up their networks? That ads track activity and may be revealing sensitive information about employees?
I don't get it.
More like because this: The NSA and CIA Use Ad Blockers Because Online Advertising Is So Dangerous
I block ads on my work network. Perimeter and endpoints.
My pal too; he makes signs.