Subbuteo_171
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Kind of agree. But no ads = no site, unless there's a subscriber model which brings its own issues.Suppose it depends on your reason for blocking ads. There's a strong ethical reason to do so given that it's not as simple/black and white as "it pays for the site", given the insidious nature of the data tracking involved and how that is used to build up a profile of that user to serve ads. Some people do not like that level of invasion of privacy. People are probably happy to support rob directly in lieu of ads, or have local ads that aren't data tracking based.
No escaping data collection I'm afraid. For example, people have ad block but then don't disable location services on phones, debit cards, cctv, loyalty cards etc
All data used to profile people.