Do you like ads?

Companies love sending out ads because it helps them gain customers in the long run. Websites love putting out ads because it helps them pay the bills. And customers love seeing ads because…

  1. it helps them find new places or products to spend their hard-earned cash on?
  2. it helps them support their favorite website without having to pay money?
  3. it helps them navigate away from the website they are reading and visit somewhere else, i.e. the ads landing page?
  4. it helps them determine if they are being targeted by personalized ads and can proceed with blacklisting or blocking certain websites and/or privacy-violating services?
  5. it helps them…

No matter how I think about it, ads just don’t mesh well with customers. Side note: I know this blog has ads, that’s because I’m using the free WordPress plan.

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