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I am so off-the-charts sick and tired of advertisers and "content" producers that feel entitled to dictate what I can and can't choose to see on my device. In
by na85 11y ago
I am so off-the-charts sick and tired of advertisers and "content" producers that feel entitled to dictate what I can and can't choose to see on my device.
In their hubris they have decreed that anyone who doesn't want to waste bandwidth downloading their ads is a thief, again because they feel entitled to turn a profit seemingly just because they exist.
The simple fact is that not everything on the web deserves to make money. A massive, massive amount of Internet content is simply inane drivel. If we were to see a great die-off of content producers due to lack of ad revenue I'm not convinced that the internet wouldn't be better off. Advertising is, after all, the business of manipulating me into buying something that I don't want to buy. Frankly I find that and the people who do it to be reprehensible.
- dawnbreez 11y agoAdvertising was once the business of informing you about what you might want. Now fools and villains use it as a bludgeon. What did they think would happen?
- JohnTHaller 11y agoAs a counterpoint, I find it rather ironic that a lot of the things people complain about being "inane drivel" yet continue to consume every day. "This is shite, it doesn't deserve to make money" "So, why do you keep reading it?"
- xlm1717 11y agoExactly. Someone has to be keeping this inane drivel alive.
- ConfuciusSay 11y agoAhh, you're going for that anti-advertising market, that's a good market! Very smart. A lot of people are anti-advertising right now - it's a huge market.
- na85 11y agoSarcasm? I'm not going for any market.
- ConfuciusSay 11y agoThe legendary Bill Hicks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMN8REGJXaA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMN8REGJXaA