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grue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Because people who make websites want to get paid for them, payment is based on showing ads, ad companies want to maximize tracking via javascript, and if the only javascript is for ad bullshit it’s easy to block it so they force the content to load via javascript too.

It’s systemically fucked up in a way that goes beyond just the technology itself.

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primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Tl;Dr: capitalism. Capitalism cannot allow nice things to exist.

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- blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I mean, the alternative is that all those people who want a way to offset server costs don’t find a way to do so, and therefore pack up and go home. And then we don’t get those websites.
  
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  - primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Or, we solve the underlying problem
    
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    Zexks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Youve never hosted before have you. What solution do you propose to handle the costs of hosting.
    
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j4k3@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The people that want to make money are not de facto legitimate. Some people want analog slavery too. Some people want fascism. Some people are serial killers. Some people are Google. I see no value in those people. They do not create content I find interesting. The things they fund are opposed to my principals and democracy. Those people buy and sell a part of me to exploit and manipulate me. Those people are criminals. Those people are bad neighbors and have no place in our communities and neighborhoods. We have a right to open public commons free from piracy, pillaging, and slavery. That is the fundamental flaw. The internet is public commons, not a slave market.

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- Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Are you denying the fact of capitalism existing on the internet? All you seem to say is idealistic non-statements that don’t engage with the answers you’re getting to the question you asked (or seemed to ask).
  
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- blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Guy who wants to offset the costs of his diy fursuit forums by hosting banner ads in the sidebar.
  
  Uuuuuuuuuhhh…
  
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MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
You do know that there’s a less intrusive way of advertising ? Right ?

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- 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  You do know that advertisers want the ads to be as intrusive as they can make them? Right?
  
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  - MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    We are talking about us not them
    
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