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I have never seen an ad in the past 6 years. I use android phone, windows PC and Android TV. Keen to hear when was the last time you saw an AD ? (aussie.zone)

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[–] mechoman444 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The thing is, I'm not against a little ad here and there from time to time. I understand that someone needs to pay for the things we use "for free".

But what is going on now is just plain old exploitation. Nothing more nothing less.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Back when Google started, the idea was to only show discrete text ads on search. Then they started showing image ads and created AdSense which basically shows Google ads on external pages. The real killer was when Google bought doubleclick. Until then Google didn't do ad tracking but with dclk (which has a tracking cookie) things went downhill fast. Ever wonder why Google ads domains are (or used to be) doubleclick.net? Because changing the domain would make Google lose all those yummy doubleclick tracking cookies.