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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

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JW prince of CPH

@maxleibman We didn't agree to this "deal" with anything resembling transparency, because if they'd told us - as in, if in stead of "hey, it's all free!" they'd said "it's free if you let us spy on you & show you more ads than the actual content you're looking for & we'll also sell the results of our spying to anyone to do anything with" - a lot more people would have rejected it, and we'd probably have seen legal action from the get-go...