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> "Advertising is not socially neutral. It is shitting in people's heads, or squatting in them. It is also the fundamental driver and enabler of surveillance capitalism as a business model. In this regard, I consider adblocking (with zero tolerance for adblocking failures) wholly non-optional. This is before taking into account additional advantages of adblocking, such as significantly reducing page bloat, bandwidth use, local resource consumption (CPU/memory), and exposure to potential malware."
-Another reason to hate advertising is the interests it creates. The world's largest advertising company Google has made multiple attempts at sabotaging the open web for profit. Google has tried to [make ad blocking harder](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening "Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening") and [increase user tracking](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-idea "Google's FLoC Is a Terrible Idea") on the web. The world's largest search engine, Youtube, is owned by Google. Youtube recently issued a [cease-and-desist letter](https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/3872 "Invidious: YouTube legal team contacted us") to [Invidious](https://invidious.io/), an alternative Youtube client which allows one to use Youtube without the annoying advertising, web bloat, and tracking.
+Another reason to hate advertising is the interests it creates. The world's largest advertising company Google has made multiple attempts at sabotaging the open web for profit. Google has tried to [make ad blocking harder](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening "Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening") and [increase user tracking](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-idea "Google's FLoC Is a Terrible Idea") on the web. The world's largest search engine, YouTube, is owned by Google. YouTube recently issued a [cease-and-desist letter](https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/3872 "Invidious: YouTube legal team contacted us") to [Invidious](https://invidious.io/), an alternative YouTube client which allows one to use YouTube without the annoying advertising, web bloat, and tracking.
-"But Youtube is a business. Running ads is the only way it can pay for the costs of operations." And that's exactly why it shouldn't exist. It is insane to have the world's largest repository of online video content locked behind an ad-ridden bloated surveillance website subject to the whims of a single American company. The world would be a better place if companies whose primary business model is online advertising went out of business and their content was decentralized.
+"But YouTube is a business. Running ads is the only way it can pay for the costs of operations." And that's exactly why it shouldn't exist. It is insane to have the world's largest repository of online video content locked behind an ad-ridden bloated surveillance website subject to the whims of a single American company. The world would be a better place if companies whose primary business model is online advertising went out of business and their content was decentralized.
> "Advertising transmitted via other mediums, such as TV, can be avoided by scrupulously consistent use of mute precisely as advert breaks begin and end, and monitoring the TV using only your peripheral vision during advert breaks. The frequency of cuts in advertising makes it easy to identify the end of advert breaks, without bringing the TV into enough focus to actually have any idea as to what is being advertised."