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[-] ThisIsMyLemmyLogin@lemmy.world 72 points 2 years ago

I find it disturbing that there are people out there who spend much of their time thinking about new ways to get people to see adverts. Surely it falls under the "bullshit jobs" category that David Graeber once wrote about.

[-] SuperSpruce@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

The big reasons I'm against this is all the side effects. Yes, there will be more ads, but there will also be:

  1. More autoplaying videos on article websites
  2. Increased risk of malware from ads
  3. Decreased competition in the browser space
  4. Decreased competition in the OS space
  5. More tracking and data harvesting
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