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The real question is: Why should you watch them at all?
by swebs 7y ago
The real question is: Why should you watch them at all?
- znpy 7y agoBecause you're probably not paying for 99% of the contents that your web browser loads.
- nfoz 7y agoIf you don't want to provide free content then stop publishing on the web, a free medium.
- EpicEng 7y agoHey, remember OTA television? That is also a free medium. Where did this notion come from?
- nfoz 7y agoAnd you have the freedom to block/skip ads from your TV, too.
- EpicEng 7y agoOr course you do, but you also seem to think no one should be using the web if they want to make ad revenue. >If you don't want to provide free content then stop publishing on the web, a free medium. How would that not also apply to television?
- nfoz 7y agoIf you want to provide TV content, go for it. But if your content has ads, don't be surprised when people skip all the ads, because ads are offensive, and they're free to skip them. So that's an awkward business model to rely on. The consumers aren't the ones being unethical; you chose to put yourself in an aggressive and dubious position in the first place. I prefer public and collectively-funded broadcasting.
- EpicEng 7y agoI was only commenting on the "...then don't publish on the web" bit, which you seem to be back peddling on.
- nfoz 7y agoAh I see what you're getting at now. Sure, ads are unethical and they shouldn't publish them, but since they will anyway, and it would be too heavyhanded to prevent them (by making it illegal, say), we should look at ways to defend ourselves against them.
- jamiequint 7y agoYou're confusing what is technically possible with what is ethical.
- nfoz 7y agoAdvertising isn't ethical. It is lies and manipulation.
- swebs 7y agoBut that's exactly what the ancestor comment was suggesting >I would personally much rather allocate actual dollars instead of CryptoBuckOfTheDay backed by ads I have no desire to ever watch. Say, $20/month that gets allocated to sites I visit. The whole "reward people for watching ads" model just seems... wrong.
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoThey're not paying me for the compute resources their suspicious unnecessary JavaScript payload consumes. If they were good actors respecting my property, I would respect theirs.