The advertising industry calls us extremists; are you one too? 

If wanting privacy is being an extremist then I'll proudly accept the title

Advertisers being parasitic while calling everyone else evil is beyond ridiculous

If wanting privacy, protection from malware ads, faster loading webpages and not "now playing 1 out 5 ads" makes me an extremist then I proudly proclaim myself to be an extremist.

The fact that they chose not to livestream the conference should really tell you everything you need to know about how much they can be trusted to tell the truth.

If I am an extremist for being tired of every waking moment of my life being filled with advertisements, unless I go out of my way to filter them out in some way, then I am happy to be called an extremist.

Calling someone an “extremist” has become the war cry of those losing the intellectual argument.

That sofa just screams extremism. One man with that much room to sit comfortably is definitely dangerous, not to mention that cat.... Yep. Super Villian confirmed.

If I'm an extremist, then what made me an extremist was the advertisement industry. They groomed me into extremism ever since I was a kid

The entire concept of ads online baffles me. I don’t think I’ve ever looked at one and said “wow, what an interesting product that I want to buy!”. If I get an intrusive ad that disrupts my browsing experience, it instantly goes into my list of things to never buy. Completely tanks all interest I may have had

I think the underlying problem is, that the advertising industry has grown beyond what people can endure. So they basically complain about their economic bubble being about to pop.

I actually like it. We're approaching moment when big corporation calling someone an extremist, would be correctly treated with ridicule. We're one step closer.

I was fine with sidebar ads, they got greedy and now most websites are unreadable with all the junk popping up and screaming in your face.

I am also an extremist. I'm extremely tired of all the bullshit happening in the tech, manufacturing, and videogame industries.

- The system is against you. - If someone disagrees with me, bad. It means they're extremists. - Somehow the old way of doing things doesn't work anymore, even if decades passed without any issue. - For some reason I need to mention black people and minorities Wow, this guy covered all points! 😂

We're not extremists. He's projecting that he's an extremist advertiser.

Some of the extremist tendencies I have: wanting privacy, making health choices for myself, believing I own things I purchase, questioning 'experts', and not getting my news from television.

I've been dubbed an extremist and terrorist many times by several organizations for having a working brain. At this point, if somebody as chill as me is getting called names like that, I'd say it's good to be someone that they don't like.

if being an "extremist" means i didn't give every single company in all of the marketing ad networks my personal information, then yes and I'm glad to be one.

I'm surprised that they never pulled the "WOULD SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!" card to justify taking people rights and freedoms.

I’ve been an “extremist” for 15+ years, mainly because I think that individuals should be free to think and act as they see fit provided that they don’t harm others.

He said the core issue with ads in beginning of the speech. If click through rate is 0.44%, average person needs to watch 227 ads to find 1 relevant one. Ads somehow became way less relevant despite companies now knowing everything about you. This entire system is broken, clearly annoying for users, and very likely unprofitable for companies purchasing ads.

The problem with Apple limiting tracking is that it's done first and foremost to give advantage to their own ad network.

If I had a nickel for every time someone I didn’t know or care about decided I was an extremist for doing what they don’t like, I would have a staggering amount of money

They succeeded in advertising for decades before the internet and data mining. The advertisers were so successful they were able to sponsor shows on radio and tv and even have naming rights for the shows. So if data mining went away tomorrow and privacy advocates won, advertising would survive and thrive with no more data than you could get by word of mouth with no electronics at all.

Can we start calling these hyper-online surveillance privacy invaders extremists?

You know what's extremist? Advertisers that shove so much crap onto a website that it cripples it and makes it impossible to view the only thing you're on the site to look at with popup ads, blaring audio, flashing banner ads, unskipable ads on videos, etc. I don't consent to a North Korean style re-education camp just to check the damn temperature outside.

The average person is exposed to 5,000 ads per DAY! And we're the extremists?

It's official. Wanting privacy, wanting to not be robbed, and not supporting child abuser makes you an extremist. Extremist has now become one of the kindest and most respectable titles you can work to achieve.

Whenever I hear that Apple makes it more difficult for advertisers to track their consumers, I find it more likely they are just keeping all that information for themselves. It is hard to fathom that the company that juices it's customers at every level is leaving this portion out.

Adblock isn't just a QoL issue. It's a security/safety issue. Until ad companies step up and offer compensation for any and all damage that their malicious ads cause, then the adblock stays on.

Totally extremist! I even use scriptblockers to remove annoying anti-adblock layers from newspaper sites!

In the purest sense, ads are not a bad thing; but more and more ad companies have incorporated dishonest, harmful, and even outright evil practices.

This is called an ad hominem attack. They also push a straw man down a slippery slope too but let's not get excited. They attack the person rather than the argument because they didn't have to defend their own position.

Labeling people who oppose you as "extremists" has become pretty common because it allows people to just decide "well, they're extremists; they're irrational and not worth listening to" rather than incentivizing anyone to sit down and listen to what "the other side" has to say. Sometimes people actually ARE extremists. Sometimes they're not. But regardless of the issue (tech, advertising, abortion, religion, civil rights, gun ownership, etc), it's so easy to just label EVERYONE who disagrees with you as extremists (and, to be fair, there are extremists on both ends of the spectrum for a lot of these issues) than to try to listen to someone who disagrees with you but ISN'T ACTUALLY an extremist and hold a conversation. A lot of issues (not all of them, but a lot of them) where there are two major schools of thought can be discussed with a certain amount of nuance in terms of legitimate concerns that people on both sides of the issue have. But that has to start with people on both sides being willing to start by asking people who don't like them "what are your concerns and how can I address them in a way that we can both be happy with" instead of just saying "I'm objectively right and anyone who disagrees is an extremist."

I can be an extremist. I for one want the advertising industry to burn whilst I vigorously laugh at it.

Damn straight I am. I am ZERO TOLERANCE on advertisements. It's why I don't watch broadcast TV. It's why I don't watch YT on my phone. It's part of why I don't leave my house very often. I **hate** advertising. In all of its forms.If I had my druthers I'd ban advertisements showcasing anything for-profit, political, or medical in all of their forms.

"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the protection of liberty is no virtue" Networks morally lost the war on adblock when that one Turner executive outright said that going to the toilet during commercials was only acceptable in limited quantity.

I am an extremist too! Extremely unwilling to be subjected poorly regulated ads , sideloading malware, or worse, the crap ads for things i dont want made by these people.

4:58 Driving addiction is actually a pretty good point when it comes to internet ads, no matter what it is, if you have support groups in your internet history they're going to show you Budweiser ads. That's actually a really good reason to protect yourself against ads if you needed one. They also are a vector for malware, so overall you're just a lot safer without ads.

I've been an anti ad extremist since '04😂, I've had a hardware ad blocker pie hole on my Wi-Fi since they first came out, I have never paid for cable or satellite TV, I refuse to watch any commercial supported television or listen to any commercial radio😂, when I drive down the interstate I keep eyes front so I don't see billboards😂 every Android phone I've ever owned has been rooted and had an ad blocker😅

1:39 - notice they never said "consumers" or "users." That very exclusion from the invitation list is an explicit "we don't care about you" middle finger to everyone who uses the Internet.

We don't need advertising. The closest thing to an ad that has *some* use is paid reviews, and even those are on thin ice. Word of mouth is the only "advertisement" worth anything.

The group that wants infinite access to all of our information so they can profit (and control) calls us names? I am shocked, SHOCKED! Well, not that shocked...

I'm an extremist because I'm literally immune to advertising. I run adblockers religiously, and I have no money for impulsive purchases anyway. So the only way their ads will ever convert to my purchases is if they are advertising ramen noodles and processed deli meat.

You can't disagree with anything these days without being baselessly labeled as the most abhorrent piece of trash.

Yeah, I love paying for a service, being bombarded by ads, tracked, profiles built on my without my consent, and information being sold to anyone with some money, regardless of their intent.

Yes, we are extremist. We like to download bears off the internet without being tracked and using ad blockers to prevent any click baits that try to distract us from downloading Bears. 🐻

The surveillance economy and mandatory renting have indeed radicalised me to care about my privacy and other rights as a citizen and customer, as well as those of others. 🏴‍☠️

Advertisers are literally just trying to make their own jobs relevant. They shove so much advertising down and rely on the law of averages to show "hey look at how much attention we brought" without ever showing return on investment or how much revenue they actually generate vs how much they actually cost. They are trying to protect their jobs from being taken away by the realization that their budget is bloated, their advertising is trash, and they are completely at fault.

Ads were regulated on the TV to not be allowed to exceed some decible threshold, _because_ ads then would maliciously make their volume twice as loud as the show you were watching, _because_ people would get up and walk away during commercials, _because_ people *don't want to be advertised to.* Ads on the internet need to hindered and regulated, they are out of control. Actively preventing you from doing the thing you are trying to do should be a digital crime.

Literal clap trap. I never knew that becoming an extremist was so easy, after all the effort I've put into it! 😂

The autoplay video ads with loud music was what turned me into an adblocker using extremist and life have been much better ever since.

I'm extremely annoyed by ads. So i suppose i'm an extremist.. So many websites are almost unusable because of them, local news sites especially. 45% of my screen gets covered by ads while i attempt to read an article, and then theres an autoplaying ad video every 6 lines of text that i often end up clicking by accident, half way through i realise that this whole article was just clickbait.

A lot of people are calling us extremists for a lot of reasons these days. This is just one of them.

A big cheese of the ad industry having a meltdown like this is absolutely brilliant. Prelude to total implosion. However, having looked around a bit, a lot of the digital ad industry pushed back, or condemned his remarks, or simply distanced themselves from him. So sadly, it seems unlikely that this man will drag the industry with him on his descent into madness.

To a crime syndicate like the advertisement industry, justice is always going to appear extreme...🤦🏼‍♂️

i cant wait until doing your own grocery shopping becomes an extremist activity

Proud to me an "extremist" for more than 5 years, and still counting; been using ad blockers on my PC, laptop & all 3 of my phones.

Being an extremist never felt so much more simple than coming to a closed convention to only hear gaslighting wrapped in political speech style. But most of all, it never felt so right in comparison.

Nothing is more hilarious to me than a conference of advertisers getting their own ad techniques used on them by someone giving a speech… if only they weren’t so stupid as to fight us all because of it

The man straight up got on stage and gave a Legion of Doom speech.

I haven't been able to watch "TV" for almost 15 years because of people like the guy in the letter. He would duct tape me to my chair, prop my eyes open (Clockwork Orange!) and show me ads 24/7 if he had his way! I will go without before I watch another ad. It's all not watchable with all the ads. I love my ad blocker.

If you're pissing of those controlling to worsen your experience You're probably doing a good thing

Oh boy if only the advertising industry knew what we're calling them

Having that label for protecting your info and privacy as advised by every alphabet agency? What have we come to??

We live in a world where normal ideas and thoughts are called extremist. I can not take these sorts of people serious.

20:00 No, email was made free by DoD money, universities money and volunteers that wrote RFC 821. Ads companies turned it into endless spam and oligopoly.

*I have all the power because turning it off and going outside is the ultimate ad blocker.*

Oh yeah. I've been an extremist ever since I realized who it is Every Single Time. I'll gladly be labeled an extremist for not wanting them to surveil me 24/7.

If adblocking for privacy and security reasons is wrong then I don't want to be right.

Ah yes, moments like this when getting called an extremist actually makes me want munch on popcorn even harder, as I enjoy the drama and tantrum of my acuser as they roll themselves on the ground, scream and yell, whilst I mostly silently enjoy teh show of someone making a fool out of themselves!

Privacy is a basic human right, these advertisers are the real extremists ... and, of course, they're projecting,

Are we finally coming to the realization words mean nothing…? Perception trumps reality

If they are concerned about dark money advertising, then they should be helping to identify the people who paid for the ad that claimed independent mechanics would rape drivers.

Its not about companies being able to advertise based on interest, its about companies not being able to spy on every aspect of someones life

I've been served multiple 45 minute long ads for Prager U. Yes, advertising can die and fade into obscurity.

I seriously hope Louis isn’t “suicidal”.

Ah yes, digital advertising. One of the greatest inventions since the printing press and gunpowder.

We are extremest because advertiser's are predatory ,harassing and invasive.

ALL advertisements are either a scam or something I do not want or rarely something I would get without the ad. How many billions of dollars have ad agencies, Facebook, Twitter, and Google made from known scammers that we report again and again and they still do it?

What's funny is that they're using valid arguments to defend their position, like preserving a free internet, but then it all crumbles when you remember that these advertising agents will fold over to any big corporation or government if it means getting more money.

"Your hatred of ads and desire to maintain your privacy borders on the extreme" "Thank you for noticing"

The online ad industry destroyed itself with greed. Likely 99.99999% of on like ads are effectively trying to cheat people out of money, mislead, or scam them. Even when they are unimpeded in their tracking, they still show bad ads. For example, if I am looking for 140mm fans with higher RPMs and static pressure to replace the fans on my NH-D15 heatsink, then show me ads for fans that offer more airflow and static pressure than the stock fans. I have tried disabling all ad blocking and all privacy and even with insane amount of tracking, (tons of CPU time spent on tracking scripts), none of the ads had anything to do with 140mm fans. Instead much of it was for scam products and overpriced junk from shady sites offering the junk at higher prices than amazon and Newegg. Aside from that, there is no accountability for ad networks, thus there is no motivation for them to deal with scammers and malvertising. The people in my neighborhood who used to constantly get their systems infected, stopped having those issues when ads were blocked on all of their browsers. If you look at sites like bleeping computer, you will see reports covering boilerplate no apologies from a wide range of major sites when they get caught serving ads that also run a large exploit toolkit and result in tens tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people getting their systems infected with malware that steals their passwords and encrypts their files for ransom. Far fewer people would block ads if the ad companies were treated like how certificate authorities are treated, where a breach of trust, allowing fraudulent or malicious abuse of the system, will often get every major browser and OS maker to blacklist that certificate authority, thus effectively putting them out of business. This forces then to be more proactive in dealing with abuse.

Those advertisment companies are the ones violating law ' Invasion of Privacy ' with all the tracking they do with user data. If they followed the law, there would be no end using tracking at all.

You can usually tell what type of mood he’s in with how he greets us

Oh yeah. 'Extremist", "Deplorable", etc. I wear it like a badge of honor

There was once a time when advertising was used to help support the free and open internet. Today content is used to push advertising. Big ad companies have purchased a lot of mainstream websites, or they've created websites like BuzzFeed. They use clickbait articles to push ads. When less than 10% of my screen is content and most of it is advertising and it's full motion video, then you realize the content actually was not really any content. It was just there to get you to click through. That's the problem. They want the max headroom world where having an off switch on a TV was considered illegal.....

“Destroy the industry” sound a lot worse than ‘force the industry to adapt’ - what actually always happens when an existing industry have regulations put on them..

Wow When I woke up today i didn't imagine i would actually feel honored to be labeled as an extremist

Advertising is a cancer on human culture.

I'll admit it, i've been radicalized for a long time, i've been using some form of ad blocker for decades now. I've stopped watching broadcast TV and Cable. Advertisers can choke on cement.

I'm just listening to a comic supervillian announce that the main protagonist and his association are "terrorists" and that they should be *REDACTED* on sight.

I'm not an extremist. I'm extremish.😂

I simply view tracking and forced online advertisers as digital terrorists. They try to manipulate and drown people in undesirable thoughts and emotions and do not respect privacy nor common laws.

RU-vid thinks I live in Mexico and am an avid purchaser of high end fashion at this point 😂

Internet advertising never worked, advertisers just had such deep pockets that nobody noticed.

On a less serious note; is it me, or is that damn chair growing???

I was thrilled to pay for Hulu when it first came out then they STILL decided to waste my time with ads eventually. Stopped using them, canceled service immediately and never looked back I am happy to pay for an ad free experience, advertising does absolutely nothing but piss me off and make me completely avoid the product for trying to shove their shit in my face.

As long as Google continues to allow obvious scammers and hate groups to advertise on its platforms, I will continue to use AdBlock and similar programs.

I worked in the ad/ad tech industries for years. These beliefs are pervasive among even the non-executive crowd, many of them truly believe ads are a force for good and that we should all love brands. Privacy isn’t a consideration, they all just pretend it’s someone else’s problem. Not everyone in the industry is like this, of course. Many use ad blockers and would qualify as “extremists”. Most of them just like making things you can see on the side of a bus or on TV. Also when the guy says “digital” he means digital ads, aka surveillance capitalism.