If you don’t pay you’re not the consumer. Why wouldn’t they be hostile to you?
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archonet@lemy.lol 2 months ago
see, I don’t negotiate with terrorists, so I use PopUpOFF and Bypass Paywalls Clean. Also AdNauseam, TrackMeNot, CanvasBlocker, and SponsorBlock to round out the “fuck you, fuck your ads, and fuck your tracking” suite.
Hostile consumer practices? Become a hostile consumer.
Tja@programming.dev 2 months ago
archonet@lemy.lol 2 months ago
I dunno, maybe provide such a good service that it makes me want to pay? Like I do with Steam games?
also, “you aren’t paying them, therefor they have the right to invade your privacy and serve malicious ads to you” is such a stupid, shit take. Are you some megacorp CEO’s personal ball-gargler or something?
Tja@programming.dev 2 months ago
Steam games cost money, there’s nothing “vonutary” about it.
I worked for a few years as freelancer (so yes, I was the CEO, and the cleaning lady) and everyone was complaining that I wanted to earn money to pay my bills and felt entitled to my labor. Some friends still are in the same situation. I grew tired of freeloaders.
Yes, I detected ad-blocking for free users and didn’t serve them. Either pay me or gtfo. I ran a business to feed my family, not a charity.
JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Calling a news site terrorist for asking for payment for the articles they write in the current political landscape sounds so… first-world-problems.
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Running malware on someone else’s computer does not exactly make you the good one.
JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Big reach from running ads to it being malware
AtariDump@lemmy.world 2 months ago
trendmicro.com/…/forbes-readers-served-malicious-…
reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
The overwhelming majority of ads are malware. Which is why I block aggressively and refuse to budge on that.
lurch@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It was probably an entertaining exaggeration, but I don’t like how the term is being diluted by overuse. If a mosquito bites me, it’s a terrorist. Got a stone in your shoe? Believe it or not: Terrorist.
The term has serious legal consequences in many countries, therefore we should make sure people don’t forget what its true meaning is.
IceFoxX@lemm.ee 2 months ago
*the articles they copied somewhere else
JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Saying that based on…?
IceFoxX@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Based on the fact that I haven’t lived under a rock for the last 10-20 years. The more the internet expanded the more sources there were to copy from and since then it has increased greatly. You only need to search for the headline and you will find several “sources”