• 0 Posts
  • 179 Comments
Joined 2 months ago
cake
Cake day: February 10th, 2025

help-circle

  • It also adds noise to the site metrics and recommendation algorithm making them less valuable overall.

    It’s like the application that will watermark images with digital noise designed to throw off AI training that uses that image.

    You’re no longer a user who is able to be profiled (because you ‘like’ things completely at random). If everyone was using a plugin like this then advertisers wouldn’t be able to serve targeted content because they wouldn’t know what content types work best for each user because every user clicks ads randomly and so there is no detectable signal, just noise.

    You get the same effect, but reduced, if less people are using it.

    In addition, if half of the users on a website are using adblockers and suddenly those users start clicking ads, then it costs twice as much to advertise while not providing any additional customers which makes spending money on web advertisement less attractive.











  • FauxLiving@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldHamster
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    15
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 days ago

    A magnet that was strong enough to keep the hamster in place would be applying enough pressure to the flesh between the magnet and cage to destroy the tissue, due to lack of circulation, over 3 days.

    If this was even remotely true the hamster would be seriously injured and severely dehydrated, not walking around normally. This isn’t even considering the damage that it would do to itself while trying to escape.

    It’s a fake story