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> we should fight against all those sources that feel falsely entitled to get a slice of our brains and time for themselves. Why are they falsely entitled? You
by eridius 7y ago
> we should fight against all those sources that feel falsely entitled to get a slice of our brains and time for themselves.
Why are they falsely entitled? You're choosing to give your attention to a site in exchange for its content. That was your choice. The site turns around and sells a tiny slice of your attention to an ad provider in order to actually make money. But make no mistake, this was the attention that you chose to give to the site in exchange for its content, and that site can spend your attention how it wishes. If you don't like how it spends your attention, don't patronize that site anymore.
- munk-a 7y agoI reject this analogy, it's like saying "You walked into a supermarket to buy an apple for a dollar, it ended up costing you eight dollars because of taxes and fees and unfortunately those seven extra dollars were spent before you ever got the apple, so I guess the apple still costs a dollar but when you walk out of the store you'll be eight dollars poorer." Advertising isn't voluntarily entered into by us, it's forced on the consumer. Personally I try to avoid patronizing sites that use heavy advertising (except interesting articles forwarded to me) but I am more speaking on the harm to us all. I suppose I could reword my comment above a bit more accurately to "I reject the normalization of advertising in society."