What if IRL ad networks acted the way they did online?
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A kind of interesting thought experiment/article. What if the human equivalent of GA/AdWords/etc. hung around the mall and followed people around?
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Here's a more interesting thought experiment: what would a real-life ad-blocker look like?
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He actually talks about that in the article! :D
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He actually talks about that in the article!
So he did. Didn't read far enough in to it. (Too wall-of-text-y for my tastes.)
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what would a real-life ad-blocker look like?
You put one of these on or near your mailbox:
https://static.mijnwebwinkel.nl/winkel/geenreclameontvangen/full29972142.jpg?t=1449758638(The left side reads “NO: no unaddressed advertising” and the right side reads “NO: no house-to-house papers”. The latter is a Dutch name for a usually weekly newspaper that’s distributed free of charge to every mailbox in town and which tends to bring about equal doses of advertisements and local-interest stories of the “fire brigade rescues cat from tree” level; not sure there’s a simple equivalent name in English.)
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I'll read until I get to a part that demonstrates he knows absolutely nothing about the online advertising industry or how tracking cookies work. And... I got to the third sentence.
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The latter is a Dutch name for a usually weekly newspaper that’s distributed free of charge to every mailbox in town and which tends to bring about equal doses of advertisements and local-interest stories of the “fire brigade rescues cat from tree” level; not sure there’s a simple equivalent name in English.)
Where I live in the US those are called "Community News."
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I have a placard like this on my mailbox which states: "No advertising, no free papers".
Had to put this one up after I was out of town for one week. I got a message from my mail delivery guy who said that he wasn't able to put my mail into the box, because it was full. It was indeed stuffed to the brim with rubbish ads.
After the placard, it's mostly void of ads now, aside from the ones where the delivery guy can't read. A simple phone call usually fixes that, though, save for the one incident where I then found three big ad papers after I called.
I then applied the cluebat and reminded those morons that the law allows me to send them a cease and desist letter (enforced by a monetary penalty), that any fees for a lawyer would come out of their pockets and that I actually am not obliged to remind them to stop that shit. I actually could have sent a C&D immediately after the first ad :)
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I then applied the cluebat and reminded those morons that the law allows me to send them a cease and desist letter (enforced by a monetary penalty), that any fees for a lawyer would come out of their pockets and that I actually am not obliged to remind them to stop that shit. I actually could have sent a C&D immediately after the first ad
Quite surprising how much a little legal pressure can suddenly make the impossible, possible. No?
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I got a message from my mail delivery guy who said that he wasn't able to put my mail into the box, because it was full.
... HOW?
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what would a real-life ad-blocker look like?
Turning off the bluetooth on your phone, since it leaks a unique ID everywhere you go in the mall.
Also, a real-life ad-blocker could look like this:
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@Lorne_Kates said:
@Rhywden said:
I got a message from my mail delivery guy who said that he wasn't able to put my mail into the box, because it was full.
... HOW?
Neighbours? He simply gave my mail to the neighbours.
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Are you seriously asking how a mailbox gets full?
Usually because mail is put in it.
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Are you seriously asking how a mailbox gets full?
Usually you pretend to not understand what people said better. He was questioning how you'd get a message if your mailbox was full.