I'm saying accusing consumers of complaining about being "shown" ads as cheap and unreasonable is blaming the victim. It's not "showing" an ad. It's a popup ad

I'm saying accusing consumers of complaining about being "shown" ads as cheap and unreasonable is blaming the victim. It's not "showing" an ad. It's a popup ad, with a tracking cookie, with a stored identity and list of urls tracked over years, tied and shared to a dozen databases, probably shared with governments (willingly or otherwise). I get a huge percentage of people on HN work for FAANG and are a part of this meat grinder, so go ahead and downvote. But blaming a consumer for not wanting to be tracked and characterizing it as them being cheap is shifting blame to the consumer. Which is victim blaming.