• TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Have you used the Internet before? Or used it without a clue how services are usually paid for? You sound a bit clueless. The day they do that, a lot of websites stop working and nagging the user to turn off adblock, which I see all the time (as an advanced user who expects it). If I was a normie who didn’t understand this it might be quite confusing. This is obviously the reason basically no mainstream browser has done this or would do it.

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      5 months ago

      Oh come on now everyone knows what an adblocker is. It’s right in the goddamn name: ad blocker, the thing that blocks ads.

      Even if they don’t know how to disable it they can just google it. And if they lack the skill to do that too, they couldn’t have succeeded installing Firefox in the first place.

      Stop trying to justify clearly unethical decisions because you used to like the entity who made the decision

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        5 months ago

        Understanding something doesn’t mean you support it. Sad so many people can’t understand this or how normal people operate.

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          6 months ago

          I give zero fucks about “the way things are” or how they “have to work”, that’s propaganda to support inaction. I’ve lived my whole life blocking ads and giving the finger to advertisers, and telling me that ads make the world go round and that’s just the way it is regardless of personal opinion on the matter doesn’t jive well with me. Ads provide nothing useful to society, and fall in the same category as predatory CEOs and anticonsumer practices that generate a lot of revenue, but make the world over all a worse place to live. It’s not something to tolerate and put up with as a “necessary evil”, it’s something to target and eliminate.

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            5 months ago

            Ads provide nothing useful to society

            An easy revenue stream for independent, free website hosters? Without this we wouldn’t have free versions of Cookie Clicker, Universal Paperclips, A Dark Room, etc…

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              5 months ago

              There is limited ad-time slots and that means only groups with the most capital are going to occupy those slots.

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                5 months ago

                Well, duh. I don’t see what’s wrong with that, and it doesn’t make any difference to people who put ads on their site.