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My sister is similar, she doesn't seem to mind the ads. My Dad knows this guy at work who likes the ads and wants Google to know more about him so they will give him better ads... There must be a decent proportion who don't mind for whatever reason.

I'm much more like you in my desire for no distractions so I can focus. But I would go a little further and say that I consider ads somewhat of an affront to my personal autonomy, and avoid them whenever it isn't too difficult.

I much prefer researching all the options myself, after I've decided to buy something, instead of continually being influenced to believe x, y, or z by profit hungry companies whose incentives are often not aligned with mine.




I like the very highly specialized ads, like from the Carbon network.




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