> You complain about ads, but think about what they enable. Saying that the ends justify the means certainly simplifies things. It's not a compelling argument

> You complain about ads, but think about what they enable. Saying that the ends justify the means certainly simplifies things. It's not a compelling argument to me; I suppose that I'm too much of an idealist. > Do you use any social network? They live off ads. Indeed, they do. And I use the benefit of my education to block them every way that I can, pushing the cost onto others. Without ads, or at least some kind of financial support, networks like that would fall apart. Necessity being the mother of invention, and interpersonal connections being necessary, we'd invent another solution. I like the idea of small, independent, federated social networks, but I don't know that they'd actually be practical.