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I'm explaining my reason for not running ad blockers in general. Every month I see interesting content that people have spend hours or days or weeks to produce
by bcrl 3y ago
I'm explaining my reason for not running ad blockers in general. Every month I see interesting content that people have spend hours or days or weeks to produce, and the main way I have of supporting them is to let the ads on their site or youtube channel be displayed. I get that there are lots of reasons to run ad blockers, and my point is that there are also reasons to not run ad blockers.
- hedora 3y agoCan’t you pay youtube or did they kill that feature? I’ve noticed the “N trackers blocked this week” thingy on my web browser is trending down rapidly now that I only read news here and on apple news+. (Though Apple News+ is turning into 100% clickbait, so apparently the economic incentives are nearly as bad there as they are at FB and ad supported sites.)
- slowmovintarget 3y agoThose same ad networks that serve up ads that "pay content creators" also serve up ads that contain malicious JavaScript and malware, or links to sites that perform all manner of malicious activity (click-jacking, XSS attacks... etc.). Running an ad blocker is required for safe use of the web these days. The "consequences" of content not getting produced are of far less impact than the consequences of failing to block malicious code contained in ads. You're argument says "me getting paid is more important than you protecting yourself from identity theft and privacy invasion." I don't accept the trade-off.