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I guess we've (some) have just been so condition that any add is an affront to us and our webpage viewing. But you're right, we do learn about some products through ads, as well as on TV. Thank goodness online ads aren't as bad as the TV ones, where this new drug that is going to help with your affliction could also have the side effect of tremors, liver damage, a stroke, death...etc. Suddenly, webpage ads and in doing my own follow up research, doesn't seem so bad
I don't use FB or any social media, I do not want to see any ads of any kind anywhere and I don't want a company invading my privacy and tracking everything I do. But that's just me.
I just hate to see ads everywhere. Even when watching TV and commercials start, I just switch to another TV channel that doesn't have commercials. Or mute TV and browse the web on my phone until commercials stop. If I had ability to block ads directly in my eyes, I would to stop seeing ads outside. Since I can't I just tend to ignore them.
Same here. The only goal of these ads isn't to sell you something; their sole purpose is to invade your privacy and sell data they collected about you to 3rd parties. The "relevant" ads are here just so they can say "we give you something in return". I personally find that unacceptable.I don't use FB or any social media, I do not want to see any ads of any kind anywhere and I don't want a company invading my privacy and tracking everything I do. But that's just me.
It had been so long since I had been on Facebook that they wanted me to confirm my identify by submitting a photo of both sides of my drivers license, or a Passport photo, or about 2 other obnoxiously invasive forms of identity verification. That is not going to happen, even though you can supposedly delete it? once you're confirmed and logged in.I don't use FB or any social media, I do not want to see any ads of any kind anywhere and I don't want a company invading my privacy and tracking everything I do. But that's just me.
yah, riggghhttttt
I registered to Instagram once just to see what's the fuss about (as pretty much all my friends and acquaintances have it). So... just finished the registration process and entered the homepage which recommended me to follow some profiles. It didn't take five seconds before I was greeted with an error message asking me to refresh the page. After refresh, I immediately got the message my account was suspended for violating terms of use and asked me to verify my profile. Sure... it happens.
Well then you have to pay for it, free is not free. Free services still have to pay to stay alive and ads are not that intrusive, compared to tracking.
FB is great for local groups, news, market, something you will not find anywhere else. It is not ideal, but it works. Cops have recently shared a raid on local gangsters.
This product already exists. How did you not know this?
Here, go order one today and cure your eyes of ads 
Thank goodness there are apps like Peacock and Netflix that allow you to watch pretty much ad free (for a small fee), otherwise, normal TV can be an ad fest about every 8 minutes.I have not watched TV in a decade or so I can not even imagine what it is like now.
I do not mind paying a small sum to get rid of ads.
Not a big hockey fan, but the Stanley Cup playoffs is some of the best hockey anyone could watch. It's more of a "who can endure to the end" with that brutal, last team standing schedule.Or they could just install an ad blocker and eliminate any invasiveness and tracking altogether.
99.99% of user have absolutely no idea about data collection. Probably 50% or more would not care even if they were fully knowledgeable and informed.
