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And yet this company's blog post has two ads blocked by AdBlock and runs Disqus as its comment section which is a web-wide data collector and ad service.

by rsingel 10y ago

blazespin 10y ago
Which probably means are they are being pretty brutally honest as they are attacking their very own business model.
- hawkice 10y ago
  There is a spectrum, for people with a certain belief, between 'hypocrisy' and 'principled', which describes how much their actions are in conflict with that belief. There is a conservation of expected probability thing happening here, so if 'hypocrisy' is more trustworthy than not knowing how someone acts, then 'principled' must be less trustworthy. But if you said someone was obviously being dishonest because their actions match their words, you'd make no sense. I am almost completely certain your statement is similarly absurd.
  - imagist 10y ago
    Sure, maybe they're untrustworthy, but we don't need to trust them to believe what they say in this case. We can evaluate what they say independently of their trustworthiness, using logic and experience.
- BookmarkSaver 10y ago
  Considering their absolute lack of a real alternative to advertising, this doesn't seem "brutally honest" at all. Simply hypocritical. Using adblockers only works because most people don't use them. If what they are advocating actually caught on (which they know it won't, making them disingenuous) then they would have to shut down their own site.
imagist 10y ago
Just because someone is a hypocrite doesn't mean they're wrong. Nobody lives up to their ideals perfectly.
bigbugbag 10y ago
Strange, using ublock origins there no ads blocked. There's three tumblr trackers blocked though. Could it be related to using pictures hosted on tumblr ? I also noticed they have addthis for facebook and twitter. Maybe someone should point them to discourse as an alternative to disqus[1]. [1]: https://www.discourse.org/ https://www.discourse.org/

And yet this company's blog post has two ads blocked by AdBlock and runs Disqus as its comment section which is a web-wide data collector and ad service.

by rsingel 10y ago

And yet this company's blog post has two ads blocked by AdBlock and runs Disqus as its comment section which is a web-wide data collector and ad service.

blazespin 10y ago

Which probably means are they are being pretty brutally honest as they are attacking their very own business model.

hawkice 10y ago
There is a spectrum, for people with a certain belief, between 'hypocrisy' and 'principled', which describes how much their actions are in conflict with that belief. There is a conservation of expected probability thing happening here, so if 'hypocrisy' is more trustworthy than not knowing how someone acts, then 'principled' must be less trustworthy. But if you said someone was obviously being dishonest because their actions match their words, you'd make no sense. I am almost completely certain your statement is similarly absurd.
- imagist 10y ago
  Sure, maybe they're untrustworthy, but we don't need to trust them to believe what they say in this case. We can evaluate what they say independently of their trustworthiness, using logic and experience.
BookmarkSaver 10y ago
Considering their absolute lack of a real alternative to advertising, this doesn't seem "brutally honest" at all. Simply hypocritical. Using adblockers only works because most people don't use them. If what they are advocating actually caught on (which they know it won't, making them disingenuous) then they would have to shut down their own site.

imagist 10y ago

Just because someone is a hypocrite doesn't mean they're wrong. Nobody lives up to their ideals perfectly.

bigbugbag 10y ago

Strange, using ublock origins there no ads blocked. There's three tumblr trackers blocked though. Could it be related to using pictures hosted on tumblr ? I also noticed they have addthis for facebook and twitter. Maybe someone should point them to discourse as an alternative to disqus[1]. [1]: https://www.discourse.org/ https://www.discourse.org/