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SkaraBrae 75 points 3 years ago

This isn't an article. It's an ad.

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kroy 14 points 3 years ago

Who actually sees ads? Between NextDNS or PiHole and ublock origin, I haven’t seen an ad in years.

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kill_dash_nine 9 points 3 years ago

People who are not tech savvy and let’s face it, that’s most people. Ask random people on the street if they know what DNS is and you’ll have a lot of people not having a clue. Maybe more will know about ad blockers but my parents, for example, would have no idea if it weren’t for me installing an ad blocker on their systems.

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salient_one 5 points 3 years ago

Except "native ads" posing as legitimate content.

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Ghostalmedia 11 points 3 years ago

It’s an old Gawker blog. So yeah, ads are the point.

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JackGreenEarth -3 points 3 years ago

I'm not sure if you're trying to make a joke, but the article wasn't advertising any products. It mentioned 5 VPNs, but it didn't seem sponsored.

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linearchaos 23 points 3 years ago

It was absolutely selling people that don't know better that they need 24x7 VPN.

Each of those links bounce through pcmag with referrers, I strongly suspect they get kickbacks from all 5 providers listed.

They pretend that VPN is going to magically protect you from google and apple tracking your surfing habbits and purchases when your IP isn't even the most identifiable thing you're using.

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