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Might you explain /why/?

• lemper 3y ago
  he works for ad company, is what crossed in my mind.
  • ollien 3y ago
    Hah, nope. Not my cup of tea :)
• eimrine 3y ago
  Maybe he does not surf websites with low-quality content.
• ollien 3y ago
  Sorry for the late reply, I didn't think to check back on this :) A couple reasons: Back when I did use them, I got really bothered by sites breaking, and I'd rather have the ads than dealing with "is this broken because of my ad blocker or is the site broken". Now, I've just gotten to the point where I don't really mind. The other part is there's enough content I consume that is supported by ads that I would like to continue supporting, without having to consciously opt into it (e.g. news sites; I don't want to pay a subscription for every newspaper but am happy to contribute to what little money they get from ads)
• temp2022account 3y ago
  Not OP but I do something similar, because I know each ad I see costs someone $$$. This leads to odd behavior like making sure I let youtube ads play for their full duration and I'll usually click on sponsor links + their pages enough to trigger the first flag of a sales pipeline, ensuring the company responsible for the ad pays as much as possible for it.
  • bit-101 3y ago
    And therefore you are rewarding and validating this behavior, so that content authors continue to pile on more and worse ads.