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People shouldn’t be forced to use a adblocker for a platform to be usable.
As opposed to when?
At what point in internet history do you think website advertising was tolerable? Because in my eyes, it’s always been an aggressive obstacle to usability, since the dial-up era.
I mean, you either pay the service so you don’t have to watch ads (like YouTube Premium) or you see ads that aren’t criminal behaviour or spam.
Either way, I fail to understand how people got into the mindset that every service in the internet should be both free and ad free.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
As opposed to when?
At what point in internet history do you think website advertising was tolerable? Because in my eyes, it’s always been an aggressive obstacle to usability, since the dial-up era.
traveler@lemdro.id 1 year ago
I mean, you either pay the service so you don’t have to watch ads (like YouTube Premium) or you see ads that aren’t criminal behaviour or spam.
Either way, I fail to understand how people got into the mindset that every service in the internet should be both free and ad free.