josefNov 30, 2016

the ""what about the sites you love"" argument against ad-blocking is bizarre. there aren't any sites that i love. they could all go away tbh. name me a single website which has ads and is good? see you can't. when everybody has ad blockers we'll be left with only the good sites!

the truth is this when i visit a website with ad-blocker turned on its because i am actively trying to destroy that website!!!!!!!!

Show threadjosefNov 30, 2016
""but what about youtube and twitter and etc"" yeah before those we just went on GameFAQs and stuff and played N64, it was fine. the internet was culturally much better when it was just all people who worked in real, non-tech jobs making their own websites as a hobby
Show threadnatasha dawn excelsiaNov 30, 2016
@jk yo i seriously fucking agree with this so hard & i also think is a big reason why this site specifically is so much more appealing to me than other SNs
Show threadjosef
~@tronmaximum there was this kinda, otherworldly, maybe even natural? organicness? to quite a lot of the web 15+ years ago, because so many sites didn't have a purpose. they didn't try to promote themselves to you, they weren't for-profit, they weren't pushing any kind of agenda, they just 'were', like a rock or a tree. you'd encounter them whilst exploring and it actually felt like it meant something
Nov 30, 2016 at 2:40amWeb