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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

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