Max Leibman has moved!Jul 21, 2023

"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

Show threadThe Animal and the Machine

@maxleibman @NAFO_69th_Sniffing_Brigade
Ad blockers are not unethical. It’s a free market choice like everything else. Business likes to switch between the economic and the ethical as it suits them. I may be a small economic engine of 1 human being but I count.

It’s a free market or it’s not on this one, and the answer is that it is. The test is to flip reverse it. Would they block? Yes they would.

Jul 21, 2023 at 11:26pmWeb