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• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I don’t voluntarily consume malware, malicious software, or hate speech/propaganda.

  Its just forced upon me when I don’t protect myself.

  Are you really happy with yourself, white knighting for the poor defenseless advertising companies? The ones who serve this shit, without policing or moderation? The lack of which is precisely why adblocking, the thing you are trying to blame users for with your disingenuous “You criticize society, yet you exist in society… interesting” type argument, exists in the first place.

  All the ad companies have to do to get rid of adblocking is police and moderate their content that they serve. Something they actively refuse to do.

  And yet you don’t have a single criticism for that. You have nothing but vigorous defense and blame shifting for that.

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  • papertowels@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You’re missing my point - the creators of the content you voluntarily consume have an agreement with advertising companies, under which they get financial compensation when people view the ads.

    Therefore, when you use an ad blocker, you are depriving them of that expected financial compensation.

    This is why it can be comparable to piracy. You are voluntarily consuming content while depriving the content creators of an intended revenue stream.

    Do you have any criticism against that line of reasoning, or are you just going to try and criticize me instead?

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    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You are trying to put the onus on end users, while also simultainously pursuing some weird guilt based appeal to emotion.

      And still refuse to address the core issue, which is the lack of moderation and policing of content creating the essential need for adblockers in the first place.

      Ad companies don’t get create this toxic hellscape, then blame end users with wrung hands and empty “Won’t someone thing of the poor content creators” appeals to emotion to try and handwave the responsibility away.

      Why won’t they think of the content creators? Why wont they do something to reduce the actual necessity for adblock in the interest of the poor, downtrodden content creators?

      Especially in a world where far better alternatives (like merch and patreon type sites) exists to give them money, directly, without having to deal with advertising hellscapes.

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      • papertowels@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        And still refuse to address the core issue, which is the lack of moderation and policing of content creating the essential need for adblockers in the first place.

        You are voluntarily consuming content that the content creators agreed to have the ads for.

        Why won’t they think of the content creators?

        For the upteenth time, they probably are thinking of them because the content creators agreed to have them as a revenue stream.

        You’re acting like content creators are completely removed from this. guess who pays them? generally speaking, not you. It’s the big bad ad companies. Why? BECAUSE THEY HAVE AN AGREEMENT.

        Especially in a world where far better alternatives (like merch and patreon type sites) exists to give them money, directly, without having to deal with advertising hellscapes.

        Great! Consume your content from those places! I’m in the patreons for a few podcasts myself for the ad-free versions.

        Just stop playing the victim when you see ads that the creators for the content you’re voluntarily consuming benefit financially from because they agreed to be there.

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