It's ads and paywalls for those who do not pay for a subscription. And unfortunately, there are ways to detect adblockers and block the users of those entirely. If you could "pay" without actually spending money and without even noticing it, wouldn't you want that instead of ads?
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Adblocker detection is easily defeated. Your "pay without spending money" argument is nonsense. You're paying by letting hostile code from sketchy sources run in your browser where it's one exploit away from compromising everything.
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"Without even noticing it" is bullshit too. Even if no malicious code runs, you notice the ad or the miner by your battery dying after 3 hours instead of 8 hours.
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Replying to @RichFelker @strandjs
The poll was about < 10% of the CPU power. If you're sane, you run it in a web worker that runs in another thread so it won't affect page performance. And browsers, at least Chrome throttle background tabs so even if you leave the tab open...
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None of that mitigates battery consumption, nor does it mitigate ux issues from cpu load. You're talking about stuff you have no understanding of.
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Replying to @RichFelker @strandjs
Whatever you say. The fact is, in the future, you're going to have 3 choices: - mining - ads - paying for your content The content creators need to get paid. Most people (according to analytics) don't want to pay with money. Which is why there are alternative methods.
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And 4. Continuing to miner-block and adblock.
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Replying to @RichFelker @strandjs
Look what
@Forbes does. Adblock turned on, you're just not getting that first pageview. Surely you can turn it back on (which is what I do) immediately after the page has loaded. There's going to be an useless war between adblockers and content creators, which no one will win.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Last I checked Forbes articles load fine for me. I never turn off adblock. Yes there will be an endless war, but it's not useless. The alternative (giving up) is rampant malware and tracking destroying security, privacy, and democracy.
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Replying to @RichFelker @strandjs
Guess your adblock is better than mine then :') What's the talk on destroying democracy, if something rustles your mindset, just go to another source of content. And don't forget the God Damn Privacy Laws, or GDPR. They should help with privacy.
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How not just adtech & tracking, but the whole system of "get paid for clicks" no matter whether it's ad-based or mining-based or whatever, undermine democracy is actually an interesting topic but deserves more space than Twitter...
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