Aurynn ShawYou are not responsible for other people’s failing business models.
Adblockers are a safety measure on the modern internet. Do your part: help everyone get more adblocking.
alcinnz@aurynn Though if you want to get sites to stop running surveillance-advertising, I would advise opening your wallet where you care & you can.
If these sites don't believe they have a viable alternative business model... they'll just lash out.
Misuse Case@alcinnz @aurynn It would be nice if they offered an alternative but often they don’t.
Google used to have this monthly subscription service where you could pay to get rid of ads they controlled on websites. They would be replaced with static blocks of art or abstract patterns instead. I liked that and paid for it! But they killed it.
Les Orchard@MisuseCase @alcinnz @aurynn The problem is that if you can afford to pay to hide ads, you can also afford to buy what they sell in the ads. That makes you an especially valuable ad target.
Letting that kind of potential eyeball escape the pool reduced the overall sale value of the ads more than the direct payments brought in.
Ads are kind of insidious that way.
@lmorchard @alcinnz @aurynn Yeah there’s a kind of thing about this in Cory Doctorow’s story UNAUTHORIZED BREAD, where the rich can afford to do without “smart” home devices that lock them into using certain types of detergent, bread, etc. to operate (the HP inkjet printer cartridge model, but for home appliances) while the poor and working class are forced to use them.