Exactly.
@HamonWry the web has always suffered from the free as in beer notion, but the odd thing is, the actual facts are that you could not use ad blockers on newspapers or magazines, because those published their ads themselves. That works for any site.
In other words, they were businesses, that realized that their revenue depended on ads at least in part, therefore it was a cost of doing business.
We run a website with zero ads because we offer users a valuable service that we spend a lot making.
Surveillance Capitalism has turned into Coercive Capitalism.
It's so 1984. George Orwell knew.
@HamonWry yes! And we're not alone. I ran a poll to reinforce our shared perspective:
When you visit a website and see a giant modal telling you to disable your ad blocker, what do you do? #AdBlocker #Privacy #Tracking #PersonalData #InfoSec #InformationSecurity [ ] Disable your ad blocker [ ] Leave immediately [ ] Try to hack your way through to the content [ ] Use an alternate junk browser