Re: Isn't Google an advertising company?
The problem isn't ads but the insane number of trackers and redirects all trying to follow you around. ublock Origin shows you this all too clearly. Imagine how ITV would have done in its earliest years if every time the ad break came up an insane amount of intermediation took place before the ads were shown.
I would have no objection to a website that simply showed me relevant ads, if I wasn't prepared to pay to get rid of them. But auto-playing videos and other nonsense like that suggest that the real problem is not advertising; it is that web advertising agencies are utter crap at their jobs.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
