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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral 10 Feb 2015

    Nothing inherently wrong with ads if they’re not personalised. Maybe what’s necessary are indie ads — no third parties, no tracking.

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      2. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 10 Feb 2015
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        And if you can prove that, *tracker blockers* could spare your site… could become competitive advantage for indie content companies.

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      2. Raina Batwing‏ @RainaBatwing 11 Feb 2015
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        @aral I think this is how The Deck ads work - I unblock them because I find them interesting

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      3. Raina Batwing‏ @RainaBatwing 12 Feb 2015
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        @aral I don't even publish to NPM. I refuse to let software force me to be contactable over private mediums, with public emails on npm & git

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      4. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 12 Feb 2015
        Replying to @RainaBatwing

        @RainaBatwing I totally understand; hadn’t considered those parameters. Makes sense. And there’s definitely no One Size Fits All True Way :)

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      5. Raina Batwing‏ @RainaBatwing 12 Feb 2015
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        @aral git even seems hostile to privacy! it stores timestamps as epoch + timezone! why timezone?? There’s lots of people in +0900 at least

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      1. DH‏ @FromWayDowntown 10 Feb 2015
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        @aral all "personalized" ads I get are for stuff I already bought or which I declined to buy or I accidentally looked at. Zero value.

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      1. markhughes‏ @markhughes 10 Feb 2015
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        @aral advertising, even simple non manipulative ads, enable money to buy market, crush better products = anti free market. Unstable fb loop

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      1. Joachim Ziebs‏ @texjoachim 10 Feb 2015
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        @aral Add unobtrusive ads as well as a limit of ads per page.

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      1. Sami Mäkeläinen‏ @smakelainen 10 Feb 2015
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        @aral Disagree, I'm fundamentally opposed to 99% of advertising - personalized or not. The vast majority is just crap.

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      2. Andreas Monitzer‏ @anlumo1 10 Feb 2015
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        @aral ad networks are also a huge problem for going TLS, because they would introduce mixed content (which is blocked in some browsers)

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      3. Mastodon: @MacLemon@chaos.social‏ @MacLemon 10 Feb 2015
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        @anlumo1 @aral Ad networks in general do not support TLS at all. They're also known to serve dangerous malware. AdBlockers have become a

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      1. Mr Blue Sky (#Linkybrain)‏ @mhsutton 10 Feb 2015
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        @aral disagree, ads are selling eyeballs. personalised and tracking is simply saying which eyeballs and which ads. Selling eyeballs sucks.

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      1. Ase Deliri‏ @AhsanDeliri 10 Feb 2015
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        @aral The challenge with impersonal ads is, if you are buying the ads, you are pissing away money.

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