When he said “the system”, he probably meant the system of ad funded services, not the system of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP as envisioned by Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955),[1].
Oh. So advertising is working as it was designed? I won’t argue with that, except that I block all that so it doesn’t, really. I suppose it still affects people who neither care to block it, or don’t know how.
Advertising is a pox on capitalism, which has enough problems without the parasites.
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When he said “the system”, he probably meant the system of ad funded services, not the system of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP as envisioned by Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955),[1].
Oh. So advertising is working as it was designed? I won’t argue with that, except that I block all that so it doesn’t, really. I suppose it still affects people who neither care to block it, or don’t know how.
Advertising is a pox on capitalism, which has enough problems without the parasites.