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I had some sites that used it years ago ca. 2006. $500/mo at peak. Then one month it suddenly halved for no apparent reason. And it kept dropping. After a while

• paulcole 7mo ago
  Easy to become anti-ad after they stop paying lol Like me becoming anti-my-girlfriend after she dumped me
  • dotancohen 7mo ago
    I believe that the old proverb is "sour grapes".
  • marginalia_nu 7mo ago
    Well it's a trade off right? If the benefit outweighs the drawbacks, you say yes, and when the benefits evaporate leaving only the drawbacks, it's a no.
    • paulcole 7mo ago
      Well yeah but this guy portrays it like a moral decision
      • beej71 7mo ago
        I didn't think it was a moral decision at the time. Now I do. But that's just, like, my opinion, man.
        • marginalia_nu 6mo ago
          What decisions aren't? The very open ended core question of the field of ethics is nothing more or less than "what is the best way to act".
          • paulcole 6mo ago
            Many decisions aren’t. Nobody says “I don’t like potatoes” because they want to look like a noble good guy. Many people say, “I don’t like ads” because they want to look like a noble good guy.
            • marginalia_nu 6mo ago
              There's a moral aspect even to deciding to claim that you like potatoes. For one, if you don't like potatoes, and you claim to do so, you're a liar, and lying is considered by many to be vicious. On the other hand, if you genuinely do like potatoes, the moral thing would be to acknowledge this, rather than concealing this or claiming you're more of a rice stan, as again, honesty is considered by many to a virtue.
              • paulcole 6mo ago
                Huh?
    • jjgreen 7mo ago
      Is this the ads or the girlfriend?
  • beej71 7mo ago
    Ha! In my case, I wasn't actually anti-ad when I dropped them, though. It just wasn't worth it any longer. I worked in marketing for years after that. And working in marketing--that is what eventually made me rabidly anti-advertising. :) Edit: I don't eat at Pizza Hut any more either, having worked for them from 1990-91. I was cured!
• BLKNSLVR 7mo ago
  This is pointing out something that seems to be deeply human, it's not intended as a personal dig, because I think I'd be in the same boat: It's interesting, not unexpected and not un-understandable, that your opinion started changing as the dollar value decreased. I greatly dislike what this says about the effect of money on the human psyche. It's as old as time, but this hack hasn't been patched and I don't think it can be: Humans will sell their souls for a price. I forgive you for your lapse in judgement. You are human after all - not intended as an insult ;)
  • echelon 7mo ago
    > I forgive you for your lapse in judgement. I "don't forgive you" for considering this a lapse in judgment, because you still have some things to learn. (I'm kidding of course. All of this framing is rather silly.) beej was doing what was best for them at the time. There were no victims. beej sold a service to an enterprise until it didn't make sense anymore. Moralizing something that happened 20 years ago is wild. It literally does not matter. beej didn't kill anyone, didn't ruin their self esteem, didn't steal. This is not "soul selling". Money isn't evil. Working for money and selling for money are not evil. You're going to have to do a whole lot more to meet that threshold for most people. We should stop casting stones at people unless they're really assholes. This is nothing.
    • BLKNSLVR 7mo ago
      'twas purely for the lolz in reply to parent's: > I am sorry for my embarrassing lapse in judgment. :) But I do agree with the point you're making.
• cryptoegorophy 7mo ago
  So if you don’t say anything then Google will think - yeah, that’s one way to make profit!