Sure, no problem.
I used to know the guy who played the troll (well, he was the body model for the film CGI at least). We clashed frequently at Wikipedia over whether to keep or delete articles but there was also a mutual respect; he even used to leave holiday greetings for me. Classy guy for a troll.
It would be great if it looked like the Amulet of Daylight from the Netflix show Trollhunters.
(RIP Anton Yelchin. 
)
Exactly what I was thinking.
Off topic but I feel the same way when on my Garmin I put in San Jose as the destination it assumes I mean the one in Puerto Rico, thousands of miles and a boat ride away, and not the one in California.
That answers Dionne Warwick’s question.
I was going to post that I agree with you, but the thread mysteriously disappeared…
You won’t feel so smug about how smart you are and how dumb the tech giants are when you now get bombarded with ads for hunting equipment…
This one is probably attributable to hypercorrection for fear of accusations that their algorithms are racist.
Ads? What are those? 
Those are the things that appear on websites that insist you turn off your ad blocker. I very rarely use such sites unless they provide a lot of value. My usual response to “mumble … mumble … so please turn off your ad blocker” is “please fuck off”.
And the targeting of those ads is really insidious. A while ago someone was selling a telescope on Marketplace here. I don’t want a telescope, but out of idle curiosity I Googled the model number to see what sort of thing this was. Well, that did it! For weeks afterwards, those sites that forced me to look at their ads were trying to sell me telescopes! It was actually a disturbing feeling, like The Google is watching my every move and always trying to exploit it to sell me stuff.
I’m pretty good at ignoring ads most of the time, and don’t mind them.
But I remember times that I’ve used browsers with zero ad blockers, and how it can take 10 times as long to load a web site as it is with the blockers enabled. They ruin the experience from a technical perspective.
Or they just straight up crash your browser. The Old SDMB used to be good for that.
With me, partly it’s the principle of the thing – “if you block our ads, no content for you!”. Well, fuck you too. Also, some ads are more intrusive than others. The ones that are large and/or animated are harder to ignore. And pop-ups are absolutely a non-starter; I’ll never tolerate those.
There is currently one situation where I tolerate ads. I use a service called Blogtrottr that lets me subscribe to webcomics and have it send me an email when they update. I don’t use it for most comics, but I do use it for the ones that update infrequently on somewhat random schedules.
The email has ads. One on bottom I don’t see, and one on top. But they’re not animated or in any way intrusive. I didn’t even notice them for a while. If all ads were like that, I might not block them.
On the other hand, the apps these days on phones take over your whole screen and play audio. Even my dad asked me to block them on his phone. And I sometimes catch him deliberately looking at ads for things. (And not for entertainment. I have to remind him occasionally that things that seem too good to be true definitely are.) He actually goes through his entire spam folder, albeit very quickly.
I pretty much only block ads if they make my computer run poorly, or if they are those real annoying ones where if you pass your mouse over them, they fold out to full screen. Other than that, may as well let the content providers make a few cents off my eyeballs. I even watch youtube commercials (though I do hit the skip ads button often.)
OTOH, SDMB has been showing me lots of ads for Tucker Carlson of late, don’t know if those few cents are worth the gouging out of my eyes.
Speaking of trolls! Tucker Carlson should record a Master Class.
I was using a podcast player that had a lot of ads it’d show constantly, but the features and customization the app offered I couldn’t find elsewhere and waiting a few seconds was tolerable. Then ads that autoplayed audio turned up and I was done, done with that app.
Nicely done!
Okay, I’m going to Pit myself. I’ve been arguing with a previously-identified sock for a couple of days over in the “Why the republicans are destined to fail” thread in P&E. I should have figured out the asshole was trolling some time ago.
(I am of course speaking about “The_Other_Waldo_Pepper”, he of the “hidden profile” who has been spoken of before in this thread.)
So now that pathetic loser is on ignore. List is now currently up to 3.
I just came get to put him. What a disingenuous motherfucker.