Archivist David Rosenthal asks on his blog, Has Web Advertising Jumped The Shark?.
He points out that there are four big problems with Web advertising as it currently exists: The bad guys love it, the readers hate it, the webmasters hate it too, and the advertisers find that it wastes money. He then goes into detail on each point and concludes that not only does everyone involved hate the system, but that it is causing actual harm to society.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 24 2017, @03:25PM
That's why I stopped using NoScript. I'm shocked that anybody still uses it. There's better options out there like uMatrix that allows you more fine grained control over what does and doesn't run.
NoScript itself is kind of a blunt instrument that was too much of a pain for my taste.