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Why do you deserve to have no ads? Reddit isn't a community service. I do think that for moderators, they could have some special app to help them do their job

• moi2388 3y ago
  Because ads are worse than cancer. The fact companies are allowed to jam them into your eyeballs without consent is absolutely ludicrous.
  • taude 3y ago
    how so? I just slide by them and move on with my life. It's absolutely mind-blowing to me the entitlement people have thinking they should get things for free.
    • matheusmoreira 3y ago
      Oh please. They're the ones who are entitled. They literally think they can sell our attention to advertisers. It's not theirs to sell. They chose to have a free site. Don't want to give things away for free? Charge for access then.
      • danem 3y ago
        This is must be a parody, right? No, they chose to have a site funded by ads. If you don't want to be advertised to, get off Reddit.
        • matheusmoreira 3y ago
          No.
        • basq 3y ago
          The shareholder need their profits!! won't someone think of their needs?
      • jayGlow 3y ago
        the site isn't free, the cost of using it is the ads.
        • matheusmoreira 3y ago
          We're under no obligation to look at ads.
          • nvr219 3y ago
            Correct.
  • kulahan 3y ago
    Bro, you're walking into their property and getting pissed at their decorations. They need to make money, and Americans at least have shown that they vastly prefer to pay for things and services by looking at ads, rather than by paying with money. If you don't want ads, pay for the privilege and get reddit premium. If you don't want to pay and you can't handle ads and you refuse to use an adblocker but MUST keep visiting for some reason, then stop whining - you've directly refused every solution.
    • matheusmoreira 3y ago
      We're walking into nothing. Our user agents are making a request to their HTTP server. It's not our faults if it replies with a free web page. All they have to do is return 402 Payment Required. But they want that mass media appeal that comes with giving things out for free, don't they? Guess they'll have to deal with it. If they send ads along with their free pages, we'll delete them. I used to rip out the ads from the magazines too. Same thing.
      • nvr219 3y ago
        > If they send ads along with their free pages, we'll delete them. IDK who "we" is in this sentence, but if you mean "the average internet user" then you're wrong. There are ads on Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, Google, YouTube, Twitter, PornHub... No significant percentage of the population has "deleted" these apps or websites because of ads.
        • matheusmoreira 3y ago
          It means people like me, like the users of this site. It also means people who know me personally because I make sure to tell them about uBlock Origin and install it on every browser I use. You bet they like the ad-free web. I can't help everyone but I try.
        • HappMacDonald 3y ago
          I don't know who "we" is either. Which means I'm just extra confused by the large number of ad-blocker-blockers that exist on the internet. I mean, what disobedience surface are they even targeting? Literally nobody blocks ads, it's an urban legend! xD
• matheusmoreira 3y ago
  > Why do you deserve to have no ads? Because my attention belongs to me. Exclusively. It's not yours. It's not reddit's. It's not Google's. It doesn't belong to anyone other than I, certainly not a corporation. It's not a currency that can be used to pay for services. They do not have the right to sell it off to the highest bidder. I deserve not to be advertised to for the same reasons women deserve not to be raped: basic human dignity. I don't consent to it. I don't consent to their forcible injection of their silly little brands and taglines into my mind. As far as I'm concerned it's mind rape and anything I do to kill ads is legitimate justified self defense. I couldn't care less how much money they lose either, find another business model or disappear.
  • bbarn 3y ago
    That is an absurd and frankly insulting comparison to make. Rape is an act of physical violence, and you're arguing about a small price to use a free service.
    • matheusmoreira 3y ago
      Oh is it? Your mind isn't part of your body? In civilized society, people can't even touch you without your consent. Why do they have complete freedom to inject disinformation and spam into your mind with complete impunity? I won't accept it. I don't know about you but I consider my mind even more sacred than my body. It's not some advertiser's playground for them to spam their bullshit with complete impunity. I will resist that abuse. I don't need to "deserve" it. I'm not alone either. It's hard enough to cope with attention deficit without these spammers around.
      • bbarn 3y ago
        So don't use reddit.
        • matheusmoreira 3y ago
          I don't have to abstain from using reddit. They're the ones who need to stop sending me free web pages. If they care so much about getting paid, all they need to do is have their web servers return 402 Payment Required and only resume service after payment is confirmed. Their advertising bullshit though? They're knowingly sending me stuff for free. They chose to do it. I won't be guilted into accepting abuse based on that. They did so hoping I was gonna look at the ads but the truth is I'm under exactly zero obligation to actually do that. So I won't.
• enlyth 3y ago
  >Reddit isn't a community service. Who do you think creates all the content? The community is all there is, and Reddit the company adds zero value other than paying for servers to host the data. They managed to create one of the worst performing and buggy websites on the internet by burning through millions of investment money. It's more pathetic than anything.
• skeaker 3y ago
  Your quip about deserving no ads has precisely 0 to do with the comment you are replying to. Nothing does but the last tiny sentence where you voice your own unpopular opinion with no substance to back it. Really strange post.