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Nowhere in the article do they mention revenue from advertising so you appear to be grasping for a reason to hate on people who use adblockers. Your posting his
by lakechfoma 9y ago
Nowhere in the article do they mention revenue from advertising so you appear to be grasping for a reason to hate on people who use adblockers. Your posting history generally looks the same.
I donate to the news outlets and other resources I depend on. I use an adblocker because:
1) I believe the business model of media should not be "collect the data of everyone and sell it". I'm ok with ads, but I'm not ok with having my data harvested. Ideally I'd rather pay for it (as I already do). In my mind, more people using adblockers hopefully encourages media to become more pay based which seems to be kind of happening. Woe is you who cannot freely read NYT and you actually need to put a value on media.
2) Ads are a good attack vector. Also tracking data leaks.
3) I don't respond to them...Tide ads in youtube doesn't make me want to buy Tide. Movie ads don't make me go to the movies.
4) The "personalized" ads created with the data harvested about me is rarely even accurate. You google something once and then google throws ads at you about it. I bought cat food on amazon for someone once and now amazon recommends cat toys to me 1+ years later.
Why subject myself to a business model that I think is broken, obnoxious, ineffective, and potentially harmful to me? This isn't fighting the man, this is being pragmatic.