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People concerned with privacy are not against ads because they are annoying but because of the systems of surveillance behind those ads. Making ads less annoying so that the majority of users continue to accept surveillance is villainy from that perspective.



This is just accelerationism. "Let's make ads terrible so people hate them, because I disagree with the fundamental concept of advertising".


Who in this thread has been advocating making ads terrible?




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