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Paying someone to not install malware on my machine makes it closer to protection money. Ad blockers do a pretty decent job of preventing ad-network malware, wi
by function_seven 10y ago
Paying someone to not install malware on my machine makes it closer to protection money. Ad blockers do a pretty decent job of preventing ad-network malware, without me having to buy subscriptions to every website I visit.
- Klathmon 10y agoYou can't just distill the argument down to that any more than I can say "going to the doctor is paying someone to not kill you"...
- Spivak 10y agoI'm going to add content to my website that, if asked, nearly all of my users would prefer to be absent, and then charge those users to remove that content. The pattern is, intentionally make a service worse, and then charge to 'make it better'. The doctor analogy would be, "for an extra $1000 fee, your surgeon will wash his hands before the operation".
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- JadeNB 10y ago> The pattern is, intentionally make a service worse, and then charge to 'make it better'. Agreed; in the tech world, I'd call this the difference between buying a faster processor—the analogue of going to a doctor—and paying to avoid intentionally slowing down a processor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80486SX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80486SX).