@dellway Not just "no" but HELL NO!
If your site (or app) depends on showing unwilling people manipulative crap, your site and your business model are broken.
If you fight ad blockers, I'll either circumvent that or go elsewhere. And so will millions of others.
#AdBlockers are self defense.
Remember! There’s no advertising on the #fediverse, so you’re the customer not the product.
But admins have bills to pay, so if they ask for some funding for the service they provide, be generous!
If they post regularly about their art works or other services they offer, buy stuff!
If they post affiliate links to Amazon etc, maybe use them?
If other users post about their products or services, buying from them keeps them coming back and helping to pay the bills!
I don't want paid ads on any of my content, even for my own profit. The last ToS update from youtube is a big deal. It means that I'm forced to have ads, which are one of the worst thing of our age, on my content, without even me being able to choose what kind of ads (or get any revenue for that matter). This is really bad and need to be know. YouTube! don't show ads on our content without our approval!