Side note: Does anybody have an effective way of blocking this stupid Admiral BS, I’ve gotten it to a point where it consistently gives me the bypass option but I’d prefer it to go away entirely
Side note: Does anybody have an effective way of blocking this stupid Admiral BS, I’ve gotten it to a point where it consistently gives me the bypass option but I’d prefer it to go away entirely
If it’s a site I use regularly, I’ll disable ad blocker, especially news. It’d be childish demand people provide me their time, labour and effort for free, especially when the ads cost me nothing.
I’ve tried that before, was I rewarded with peaceful well placed ADs? Hell no, I was inundated with full page auto-playing monstrosities so fuck that.
Maybe if it’s a small time website I’ll just pay with donations or a subscription, but fuck these big time conglomerate owned websites
Have you subscribed or paid for many? If so, thank you! But sadly, most of us don’t.
I’m not talking big conglomerates, I’m talking about independent journalism or folks who are working to build something meaningful or beneficial to me, like webcomics or fantasy hockey.
Since people started getting news online for free, quality independent journalism has plummeted and we’ve been left with mostly corpo media with a few indies hanging on or getting absorbed into corpo. I think it’s a tragedy which adblockers have accelerated.
I don’t demand anything, but I’m not responsible for making sure anyone else makes money. Sell it, give it away, or don’t. Don’t beg me to allow third parties to infect my devices just because they paid you to ask me.
How do you expect the websites you use to exist if everyone ad blocks them?
Lot’s of websites exist. How did they do it before invasive ads and tracking?
Back in the day, before ad blockers general unobtrusive ads generated more revenue per site visit. As ad blockers become popular, the value of those same ads were worth less.
So, to answer your question, they were able to pay the bills with discreet ads which we decided were too annoying, leading to the current spiral of decline.
Spicy take these days.
Yup. Everyone wants everything free but simultaneously want a high standard of wages for everyone except whomever is providing them a service.
Folks dress it up in whatever nonsensical rationale they’d like but really, I think we’re just selfish.
I demand control over my computing on my hardware. After I casually request media do not feel entitled to run anti-features without my permission.
I do think that hard effort to create works should be rewarded but I do believe ads have a cost - and it’s too damn high.
How do you reward the work you encounter online?
I buy merchandise from video creators, do non-annual donations (1 is annual) and assume commission for affiliate links can happen in the background when I buy stuff.
I admit I mostly give back to bigger players (e.g. my OS creator), and less so to those who are just starting off that don’t see as much.