1. Internet ads were supposed to solve the “who’s watching” problem. By letting advertisers target their audiences and display ads on vetted sites.
2. *but* Advertising companies also offer stuff (either browsers or product features) that are on the “bleeding edge” when it comes to protect their users privacy.
3. Marketing departments anywhere from big to small sized companies know and/or deal (kinda..) with advertising fraud cuz they want to “show work”/“good quarterly results”..
4. Most of the users, just want to freely access content in order to trick their minds into feeling amused when in reality their just bored
5. Only a small fraction of the remaining users (from 4.) are capable of understand and deal with all this..
So.. The Internet is either doomed if this continues, or in the process of becoming an even bigger trash can if “they” get way with this :/
> As others will be quick to point out, HN does have ads in the form of job postings for YCombinator startups that are delivered inline with the links on the front page.
This is great! This is one more step towards a world free of JavaScript! The obvious root of all evil. In no time will be back to server side render static html pages!
I’ve tried that several times. The thing is the “project” usually dies after some time due to the time a simple but complete SaaS takes to build. Also in my case, I have little to offer when it comes to share the frontend work. Thanks