Another reason why they just externalize the cost of the website onto anyone who can’t use an ad blocker or doesn’t know how.
Ads are attractive to many users because they have a simple option for universal opt out (adblocking) at the cost of everyone who isn’t a Freerider.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Traister101@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Yes but a lot of us who do block ads block them largely because they are intolerable. I largly only started blocking ads at all because of how utterly miserable YouTube ads became.
Yoga@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Gotta love loading a mobile webpage and 20% of it is readable text and the rest is advertising.