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WEBSITE: Please consider allowing ads on our page. We promise we don't run annoying flash ads or stuff like that.

ME: Ok, random seemingly independent website, I'll trust you.

WEBSITE: *autoplaying video!*

WEBSITE: OMG WE NEED YOUR CONSENT FOR COOKES

WEBSITE: Hey, you want to allow browser notifications!

WEBSITE: Here's like, 8 identical ads for some weird cartoony sex game

WEBSITE: Subscribe to our newsletter??? 😉

ME: 😒😒😒

There are like, 3 websites I allow ads on. TV Tropes, The Onion, and this one internet radio site.

By remarkable coincidence, they're also sites whose advertising isn't completely obnoxious.

@InvaderXan ads are still a malware vector even on “good” (haha as if web pages with ads could be good) sites.

@InvaderXan I wouldn't even mind /nearly/ as much if sites would only curate their ads themselves, or through somewhere with some ethics (eg not Google) - Project Wonderful was superb for that. I was happy to make an exception for them, as their ads were unintrusive, and *actually relevant*, often introducing me to comics I likely wouldn't have encountered otherwise.

@porsupah Right? Like, just don't be a jerk about it. That's all I ask. You wouldn't think that would be a tall order??

@InvaderXan
Plus the 30 scripts who do browser profiling and tracking to let the advertisers correlate any step you do on the web