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I don’t. I don’t pirate software either^. They are not the same thing, but in both instances sometimes you will negatively impact the little guy’s bottom line.
by skinnymuch 5y ago
I don’t. I don’t pirate software either^. They are not the same thing, but in both instances sometimes you will negatively impact the little guy’s bottom line. So I don’t do either.
Edit: to clarify. I don’t think any less of any one for doing whatever or me being better than any one.
^there are exceptions. I’m sure if I needed to use Photoshop for a day I’d do something akin to pirating. In this case I don’t think it’s a big deal with Adobe being worth $300B.
- berkes 5y ago> negatively impact the little guy’s bottom line We are talking about Google here. How is blocking ads from Google "impacting the little guys's bottom line"?
- skinnymuch 5y agoThe posts were about blocking ads en mass. Not about blocking Google specifically. It would be incredibly rare for some one to get ublock or something similar and only block multi billion dollar companies.
- nitrogen 5y agoIt's the smaller ad networks and obscure sites that are more likely to have malware sneak into the ads, though, so it's safer to block everything.
- skinnymuch 5y agoSure. I could have similar or different but nonetheless reasons for software and apps. Maybe somehow getting around a SaaS app. Or for other circumstances like finding random people on the web to split a substack or Stratchery subscription with (the latter happened on Twitter and people were not pleased). The reason doesn’t change my point. The smaller person is hurt by any of these actions when done to their thing - ad blocking, piracy, workarounds, etc.