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> Why on Earth wouldn't you do everything in your power to block these people? I block ads myself, but if I didn't it'd be because it's the only wildly prevale
by Tenoke 4y ago
> Why on Earth wouldn't you do everything in your power to block these people?
I block ads myself, but if I didn't it'd be because it's the only wildly prevalent, fairly minimal hassle way to make micro-payments to a service/content I'm benefiting from.
- hypertele-Xii 4y agoTaxes are another.
- commmentator 4y ago> it's the only wildly prevalent, fairly minimal hassle way to make micro-payments to a service/content I'm benefiting from. To see the absurdity of this position just replace "view ads" with the following: I would stop content creators from breaking into my home and taking money from my wallet in the middle of the night, but I don't because it's the only wildly prevalent, fairly minimal hassle way to make micro-payments to a service/content I'm benefiting from. It is not the responsibility of consumer to accept harmful practices because they're the only practices in broad use.
- phh 4y agoYup. That's the reason I kept 2011-2021 without ad blockers. But yeah I could no longer live in that hell. Fwiw ads have more properties than just being micro payments. Another property is that the price is a monotonic growing function of your revenues, so """every viewer contribute with how much they can"""