On 09/04/2019 08:58, Brian Gaff wrote:
A lot of this of course hs come about due to gdpr and the use of ad blockers
on browsers. In the end no such thing as a free lunch and applications that
gather data now have to tell you they do or be in breach of the law, and
obviously many sites now stop you using them if you use an ad blocker
leaving funding a problem, as they cannot harvest usage data and all the
other stuff in secret any more.
Brian

I have no problem with ads, but do object strongly to bandwidth and
processor hogging, animated or video ones, pop-ups and pop-unders. I
also prefer not to be tracked and am fed up of sites where you have to
repeatedly opt-out, even when you visit a sub-page and those that
require you to opt-out of every "associated" tracking company (often
dozens) by visiting their websites individually.

SteveW