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I don't see adds on science.com thanks to AddBlock. I'm guessing this is what makes the UI work for fine for me.

• ryandvm 13y ago
  Ad-blocking on the internet is kind of like recycling. Sure, it doesn't matter if you do it, but if everyone did it we'd all be fucked.
  • omni 13y ago
    Do you mean kind of like the inverse of recycling, or does recycling have some dark secret that I'm blissfully unaware of?
    • nikatwork 13y ago
      There is some conspiracy theory that recycling is actually a lie and is somehow more environmentally harmful than regular garbage. This is based on... well I don't know who comes up with this crazy shit really. Or there's (some) Libertarians who think recycling is anti-free-market. Rand must've hated separating her trash or something.
  • cwp 13y ago
    Well, the Internet would certainly be a very different place if everybody blocked ads. It's hard to predict who would benefit and who would suffer, but "we'd all be fucked" doesn't seem like a likely scenario.