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$5 a month to see 15-25% fewer adverts seems like a bad deal, when I first saw this announced I couldn't see any way of it working. Google being financed by ad
by orf 11y ago
$5 a month to see 15-25% fewer adverts seems like a bad deal, when I first saw this announced I couldn't see any way of it working.
Google being financed by advertising is interesting, on one hand they pump a lot of money into security (and lead the field in a lot of areas) but on the other they take in a lot through scammy adverts. Just Google 'Chrome' on a new computer and you will be faced with a whole bunch of "Download Chrome from download.safe-webbrowsers.com" that are designed to trick less technical people into installing crapware. Same for the endless diet pill and 'one weird trick' adverts that scam people into eating the pill equivalent of crapware.
On a side note that title took me a while to process, I was wondering what flounders are and why on earth visitors should pay them.
- clock_tower 11y agoSurely you're familiar with flounders! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flounder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flounder) And they're in decline these days; paying them, to help keep up their population, would make sense. :) (If Google wanted me to pay flounders, I'd do it; but paying for ad-blocking? I'd rather just block Google APIs with NoScript.)