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title: Using an Ad Blocker is Not ‘Puppy Genocide’
date: 2016-01-21 14:28:00 -06:00
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link_url: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151229/08111133184/gq-forbes-go-after-adblocker-users-rather-than-their-own-shitty-advertising-inventory.shtml
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Timothy Geigner on *Techdirt*:
> Lots of sites have recently made ad blocking software a target of their ire, complaining that such software ruins everything and is a form of puppy genocide or whatever.
Boy do they play the victim. His explanation of why people use ad blockers is on point:
> There's a reason why users use ad blockers after all: many online ads suck harder than a vacuum cleaner looking for love. But *they don't have to*.
That's what these idiotic, pushing-their-own-selves-into-irrelevance companies don't seem to understand. We get that ads support their business, but *we don't want to be tracked*, and *the ad shouldn't take over the freaking page*. Serve me an ad, don't track me, load the page fast, and I'll gladly turn off my ad blocker for you.