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Everyone's complaining about ads. But just like on the web, ads aren't the problem, tracking is.

https://twitter.com/RunDaltonRun/status/1408578486046887939

This thing is for tracking what you look at, and is supposed to help the store figure out how to "optimize" their shelf.

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There's also the unnecessary use of untrusted JavaScript that sites pull in from their ad networks.

A few years ago I tried running without ad or JavaScript blocking at work. That lasted a few weeks until the day I got an JS driven redirect to a porn site from a work related search result. I have no sympathy for the clowns who imposed this garbage on the world.

Ads are one part of the problem. And they are a major problem. And they are one of the easier problems to tackle.

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