Originally Posted by
cleong
As the saying goes, if something is free for you, you’re the product.
They’re selling your content, your personal information, (probably) tracking and browsing cookies then feeding you ads along with the forum content and all that
You are right about targeted ads; for most of the pages that are presented here, at least for me, there is at least as much ad content as forum content and in many instances
more ad content than forum content. I'm a pretty active buyer of all sorts of stuff via the net but happily I'm able for the most part ignore ad content so the effort is lost on me.
It's merely a nuisance that I've conditioned myself to ignore and if it becomes too invasive I close the page. Usually when whatever browser I'm using begins to exhibit so much latency
due to script overhead it's time to go.
If you are curious about the demand on your device if it's a PC bring up task manager just before you open the page and watch the memory and CPU usage..
Jerry