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MeFi post: "Adblocking is the modern speeding"
or content jumping around randomly as ads load all over the place

I firmly believe this is intentional, as it frequently leads to accidental ad clicks. Super-scummy.
posted to MetaFilter by Lentrohamsanin at 10:24 AM on July 4, 2015
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posted to MetaFilter by DoctorFedora at 8:04 AM on July 4, 2015
A key issue that nobody talks about is that advertising is bandwidth theft.

I, the internet user, am paying my ISP for bandwidth. I, the internet user, click on your website to read a 2000 word article or look at a 500kB image. I do not believe I should have to download 2Mb of advertising images and execute 25,000 lines of buggy third-party javascript to read that 11kB of text in that essay or to look at that image.

Advertising turns the internet... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cstross at 7:49 AM on July 4, 2015
The next thing after Digital Rights Management may be Attention Rights Management (ARM); justified by the (somewhat ambitious) legal doctrine that consumers of online media have assented to a social contract to pay attention to advertising, there will be mechanisms to enforce this, and lawsuits against attempts to circumvent them. We've seen speculative patents for gaze-tracking web browsers that keep track of how long you've looked at the ads, and even the nightmarish Sony patent for the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by acb at 7:31 AM on July 4, 2015
But then how do you guys engage with your favorite brands?
posted to MetaFilter by Lutoslawski at 6:59 AM on July 4, 2015
When Apple announced that iOS9 would have ad blocking, PCMag wrote an article about how it was a bad move. Here's what that ariticle looks like on iOS and Safari for Mac.

This is, of course, obviously Apple's fault!

No. It's not Apple's fault. The reason we're all running Ad Blockers is advertisers have frankly abused the web. If they had done things like they did on TV or Radio, or even sports, we probably could have coped. But look at those... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by eriko at 6:53 AM on July 4, 2015
I resisted using an adblocker for the longest time, because where does my money come from?

But in the end... it's that or rip your own eyeballs out. It was the video ads here that tipped me over the edge, not just the intersticials but the goddamn auto-runs. You do know I use my computer's audio to play music and radio programming, advertisers? That I do not get a warm rush of purchase-scented gratitude when you suddenly talk over a Bach prelude to sell me a car?... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Devonian at 5:11 AM on July 4, 2015
I would be thrilled if the advertising industry collapsed along with the attendant ad-supported businesses, since it represents a huge amount of skilled labor completely wasted fighting a zero-sum or negative-sum battle for consumer attention. I assume the eventual result will be better businesses out the other end as the labor is repurposed toward actually productive things.

I use adblock since I don't want ads to exist.
posted to MetaFilter by value of information at 4:33 AM on July 4, 2015
Why yes, endangering the lives of human beings is exactly like threatening a business model. Also refusing to shop in a store that only takes cash: the store might have to install a card reader in the same way some websites adopt paywalls, and the cost might drive them under. Man, consumers make me so mad with their disrespect for business. It's almost like they think capitalism is supposed to involve competition for their benefit.
posted to MetaFilter by TheophileEscargot at 4:33 AM on July 4, 2015
Most of us by now have a kind of Adblock of the Brain anyway. We unconsciously filter out the vast majority of advertising we're bombarded with - we have to or we'd go mad. Adblocking, for a lot of people, is the difference between having someone recycle the junk mail before it reaches your house, and having to drop it in the recycling (unread) yourself. The last time I clicked on an advertisement on the web? Maybe 1997. My elderly mother probably clicks one or two, mostly by accident. That... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by pipeski at 4:14 AM on July 4, 2015
it's ass backwards anyway - WE'RE the residential neighborhood and the speeding cars are the corporations playing their music too loud, revving their engines and turfing out "buy pepsi" on our lawns like a bunch of half-wit teenagers
posted to MetaFilter by pyramid termite at 4:32 AM on July 4, 2015
Big corporations aren't obliged to refrain from crashing the economy, undermining democracy, or destroying the biosphere. And governments aren't obliged to provide their citizens with health care or employment. But if I don't watch shitty advertisements I'm doing something unethical. I tell ya it stabs at my conscience day and night 'til I can't eat nor sleep.
posted to MetaFilter by Sing Or Swim at 4:20 AM on July 4, 2015
no, it's the modern equivalent of locking your car door so thieves don't take your stuff
posted to MetaFilter by pyramid termite at 4:13 AM on July 4, 2015
Recently, it seems to me, there are more and more ads that can't be blocked on many more websites, and because there is so much content everywhere, it always raises the question: Do I really want to read this article so much that I am willing to watch 15 or 30 seconds of an ad beforehand? The answer for me at least is nearly alway No. So I really wonder, what better tools are there today to avoid the ads?
posted to MetaFilter by growabrain at 4:11 AM on July 4, 2015
It's a ridiculous analogy. If ad-blocking posed a risk to the wellbeing of other internet users, it might have some merit.

In my opinion, advertisers have ruined an internet that was once based on mutuality and reciprocity. More power to the ad-blockers.
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 4:10 AM on July 4, 2015
When internet ads are no longer one of the most common vectors for malware infection, then maybe I'll take these tearful pleas to unblock ads a little more seriously, but until then I'm not going to make myself vulnerable to random vandalism just so you don't have to find a business model that actually works.
posted to MetaFilter by Proofs and Refutations at 4:07 AM on July 4, 2015
If billboards paid for civil engineering infrastructure, that would be true. I am already paying $136 a month for phone, broadband and cable. It's not my fault internet-only companies can't seem to find a business model including ads that will make me buy.
posted to MetaFilter by parmanparman at 4:02 AM on July 4, 2015
MeFi post: Bruno Bad? Strong Mars?
This should be viewed through a fisheye lens.
posted to MetaFilter by Mr. Bad Example at 3:38 PM on February 14, 2015
Very reminiscent of this Daft Punk vs Strong Bad mashup from last year.
posted to MetaFilter by KGMoney at 10:56 AM on February 14, 2015
Somehow, Tom Petty will make money off this.
posted to MetaFilter by drezdn at 10:29 AM on February 14, 2015
MeFi post: "Please use the brand-new desk lamp we just purchased for you."
ALL THESE SPACES
ARE YOURS EXCEPT
CONFERENCE ROOM C
ATTEMPT NO
MEETINGS THERE

posted to MetaFilter by Buttons Bellbottom at 10:47 AM on January 14, 2015
MeFi post: Why do the Cylons come every thirty-three minutes?
Why do the Cylons come every thirty-three minutes?

Oh, Rule #34 kicks in so hard!
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:29 AM on January 14, 2015
Also I got stuck for a few minutes in the article wondering why no prop person thought to cut the corners off that super important whiteboard.
posted to MetaFilter by yellowbinder at 9:27 AM on January 14, 2015
MeFi post: The remains of Bradbury’s home
The crash. The attic smashing into kitchen and parlor. The parlor into cellar, cellar into sub-cellar. Deep freeze, armchair, film tapes, circuits, beds, and all like skeletons thrown in a cluttered mound deep under.

Smoke and silence. A great quantity of smoke.

Dawn showed faintly in the east. Among the ruins, one wall stood alone. Within the wall, a last voice said, over and over again and again, even as the sun rose to shine upon the heaped... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by TedW at 5:25 AM on January 14, 2015
MeFi post: "Please use the brand-new desk lamp we just purchased for you."
I don't even work there, and I feel that, although this was a general announcement, it was personally aimed at me. I'M SORRY I LEFT MY KNEADED ERASER GRUMPY OLD MAN SCULPTURE ON THE DESK OK I PROMISE I WILL NEVER DO ANYTHING FUN AGAIN.

YES I HAVE DOLL EYES IN MY BRIEFCASE.
posted to MetaFilter by louche mustachio at 10:47 AM on January 14, 2015
AND STOP MICROWAVING FISH
posted to MetaFilter by brennen at 10:40 AM on January 14, 2015
Is there anyone who works in an office who has never gotten an all-staff email like this?
posted to MetaFilter by lunasol at 10:40 AM on January 14, 2015
MeFi post: A perspective from a distance.
I read this and actually felt dizzy afterward. Oh boy.

I haven't spoken to my father in many years. I was not horribly abused or anything like that. He's just not a nice guy, and in my brother's case this had a big negative impact since my brother already suffered from mental illness. Sometimes you can be "ok" from a legal and societal perspective of "not abusive", and still not be someone I want to hang out with or talk to.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by selfnoise at 11:29 AM on January 14, 2015
Yeah the self-esteem thing is pretty bad, but the real problem is that playgrounds have become just too safe. Every kid should either receive a debilitating injury or witness one of their playmates die a horrible death, otherwise they turn out soft.
posted to MetaFilter by Poldo at 11:23 AM on January 14, 2015
I'm a millenial and have never received an award, medal, or trophy for participation. Does this actually happen outside of boomer-authored generational wankpieces?
posted to MetaFilter by almostmanda at 11:21 AM on January 14, 2015
Look, it's clear this noxious culture of self-esteem gave them the courage to get away from her and that's wrong - children are servants and accessories after all.
posted to MetaFilter by The Whelk at 11:14 AM on January 14, 2015
Yeah, this is just the absolute worst thing I've read in a long time.

You have TWO children who won't talk to you, and you basically blame "self-esteem"?
posted to MetaFilter by lattiboy at 11:09 AM on January 14, 2015
I give to you this response from The Toast. Which pretty much says it all as far as I'm concerned.

Because people with certain personality disorders always cast everyone else as the narcissist/borderline/hysteric in their own personal shitshow, where they themselves of course are the purest of martyred victims.
posted to MetaFilter by blue suede stockings at 11:06 AM on January 14, 2015
MeFi post: who's stealing time from whom?
Favourite this comment if you're reading it at work.
posted to MetaFilter by The Card Cheat at 5:17 AM on January 12, 2015
Does reading about a Swedish guy pulling things out of his ass count as porn?
posted to MetaFilter by Segundus at 4:26 AM on January 12, 2015
I always presumed everyone on Metafilter had one of these jobs? If it wasn't for slacking Metafilter would be dead.
posted to MetaFilter by mary8nne at 3:31 AM on January 12, 2015
I can't wait to get to work so that I can read the article.
posted to MetaFilter by double block and bleed at 3:26 AM on January 12, 2015
people who are unemployed, part-time, or working a non-standard shift? Is that number really high enough to make up 70% of porn viewing?

Also, students.
posted to MetaFilter by dumdidumdum at 3:13 AM on January 12, 2015
I await shift-workers checking in on this.

it's not as prevalent as it might be in an office, but it goes on - the answer to the question in the link, "why don't employers do more to combat this?" is simple - it's too much work, the conflicts will turn an ok day for the supervisor into a very unpleasant one, and some of the people who could be disciplined can fight back by being "unable" to "fix" what's "wrong"... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by pyramid termite at 2:45 AM on January 12, 2015
I actually run redtube at my office computer in a dozen different tabs 24/7. It is kind of like an anti SETI project. So I skew the sampling a bit due to the fact that roughly 3600% of my work time is spent watching porn.
posted to MetaFilter by Literaryhero at 2:20 AM on January 12, 2015
I await shift-workers checking in on this. Two minutes from the bell to make your way to the breakroom, six minutes to eat cookies, drink foul coffee and maybe have a shit if you timed it right, and two minutes to get back before the bell sounds the start of the line again.
posted to MetaFilter by vapidave at 1:59 AM on January 12, 2015
His "research" (n=43) which includes friends of friends, and a website sounds like what I'd call "empty research".

It's called snowball sampling, and that's how you do sampling when you want to find people with certain characteristics.

As for sample size: this always depends on what you're studying. No one complains when Shakespeare scholars have a sample of one.
posted to MetaFilter by jb at 1:57 AM on January 12, 2015
I've also never worked a job where this level of slacking was possible - except one where it wasn't desirable (I liked the work and the boss too much).

Right now I'm working a near-minimum wage job where every second not on break is supposed to be accounted for -- and I find myself deeply resentful of people working higher paid jobs who are allowed to stop and go get a coffee when they like or just take a breather. I took the job thinking it would be less stressful than... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jb at 1:53 AM on January 12, 2015
I keep hearing about all these slacker jobs there are but I can't find one for the life of me.
posted to MetaFilter by Ray Walston, Luck Dragon at 1:42 AM on January 12, 2015
MeFi post: What do you anonymously send the person you can't stand?
"In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher."

Dalai Lama


"But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust."

Jesus Christ

"We must develop and maintain the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by HuronBob at 5:39 AM on January 13, 2015
A child in Argentina recently died from glitter inhalation, after spending several weeks in the hospital, some of them in a coma. So, funny, not so much.
posted to MetaFilter by signal at 5:36 AM on January 13, 2015
"Glitter as a Service". What a gaas!
posted to MetaFilter by narain at 5:21 AM on January 13, 2015
"Never hire Tobias Fünke."
posted to MetaFilter by kewb at 5:17 AM on January 13, 2015
We all knew one day the internet would come up with the ultimate weapon. I feel that this day may have arrived.
posted to MetaFilter by Mizu at 5:13 AM on January 13, 2015
I just ordered one of these and mailed it to myself. I will report back when my letter of glittery hate arrives.
posted to MetaFilter by royalsong at 5:17 AM on January 13, 2015
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