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"Ad blockers are unethical—ads are how they pay to keep the lights on!”

Exactly. It's how THEY pay to keep the lights on. It's not how I pay for anything. I didn't agree to see ads, although I'm ok with some ads; what I definitely didn't do is agree to be tracked and profiled and have arbitrary third-party code running on my computer just so I could read this awful, pointless, SEO-ified shitfest of an article that doesn't come close to answering the question I was googling.

#enshittification

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@maxleibman why are ad blockers unethical and how do they pay unethically for anything? Genuinely asking. Also who said it?
Jul 21, 2023 at 7:30pmWeb
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@maikel I’m sorry, the first sentence was clumsily written. The sentiment wasn’t mean to be that ad blockers pay for anything, but that ad blockers are unethical because websites use ads to pay the bills. I’ve tweaked the wording to make this clearer.
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@maxleibman aw I get it now. Thank you for the clarification.

The problem with ad-driven websites is they are all shit. When all that they care is to keep your eyeballs attached to the screen, they don't really inform you