Adverts Are Screwing Over The Third World, but There’s a Fix (Dell XPS 13 Giveaway!)

“It’s like a war, and in any war, there are casualties.” I was sitting in a café with a friend of mine. I was complaining about ad-blocking. How I thought it was wrong. How I felt that it threatened the very existence of an independent media. Above all, how outraged I was that people were reading my content without paying (of sorts) for it. “Yes, but why do you think they do it?” He had raised an interesting point. I know that advertising isn’t ideal, especially digital advertising, which comes with its own privacy, usability, and security concerns. Like most...

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