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Adblocking an immoral tragedy of the commons type move. Psychologically, It's not unlike NIMBYism or residents of a gated community that figured out how to avo
by platz 5y ago
Adblocking an immoral tragedy of the commons type move. Psychologically, It's not unlike NIMBYism or residents of a gated community that figured out how to avoid paying their taxes.
- batch12 5y agoThese poor, poor ad companies are being taken advantage of by me. I have no shame. I even immorally block ads on thousands of endpoints used by other people! Quite the tragedy!
- devilduck 5y agoThis is a hilarious take, thanks for the laugh!
- raxxorrax 5y agoYou mean because the free internet is infrastructure belonging to all and ads are its maintenance? I fundamentally disagree with this parable. I don't think common practices in advertising are a necessity, especially when it comes to analytics.
- JohnFen 5y ago> Adblocking an immoral tragedy of the commons type move. Adblocking is a reasonable defense against the constant and expanding abuse (of both people and the commons) that the ad industry brought on us. For the record, I don't engage in ad blocking as such. I block scripts, which has the side effect of blocking much of the more abusive ads. However, reasonable ads aren't blocked at all -- it's just that there aren't many reasonable ads on the internet.
- dang 5y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28365335 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28365335.