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