Ok, let's do something with ads ! From now I will, as much as possible, DO NOT BUY ANYTHING that ad I saw. Simple :) Until "rogue ads" will be created...
#seedontbuy #WAYSDNBI
#seedontbuy #WAYSDNBI
Accurate digital catalogue of all goods, digital and physical available in the world, with in-depth descriptions, search, lists, professional written reviews, actual product photos and no advertising. I mean, zero links or addresses to where you could buy them. How much would you pay for that?
To boycott stuff that has been advertised requires a list which is always consulted before any purchase.
The whole situation we are in right now is a arms race between the ad industry and users. Ads are going more and more sophisticated and intrusive (fingerprinting, tracking, autoplay for video/sound, etc.) which causes the ad blockers to get more complex and block the new techniques from the ad makers. This leads to even more shitty tech in ads and so on.
I really don't mind to have some (non intrusive) ad banners on a website if they just show me some stuff I could buy. But no, they can't play nice and try to change my position from potential customer to a product which they can sell and this is not ok.
The only defense right now are ad blockers and GDPR complaints. You see some sketchy tracking stuff? Send the website owner a GDPR complaint. Bind their workforce to respond to the complaints more and more (they are obligated to answer, even if your claim is BS) and after countless hours and $$$ they maybe get the idea. I've done it with a few websites and the ad load and amount of trackers decreased. Was it legal? Yes. Was it nice? Nope. Will I do it again? Oh yeah, I will do it until these people start to be good citizens on the network and stop fucking around with my data.
I've never heard of this before.
In both cases they have a legal requirement to answer in a few weeks (it's regulated in the GDPR itself).
A different option is to complain directly to your countries data protection office, this puts more pressure on the company, but it's mostly slower.
The European Union and the European Commission have a lot of resources about this topic:
https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...