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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    1. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 27 Dec 2015

      This, too, is open source. Open source, by itself, does not imply that what is being done is for the general good. https://github.com/sitexw/FuckAdBlock …

      3 replies 4 retweets 17 likes
    2. Bozhidar Bozhanov‏ @bozhobg 27 Dec 2015
      Replying to @aral

      @aral let me play devil's advocate: what if it's better for humanity as a whole to have ad-supported free great & useful services?

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 27 Dec 2015
      Replying to @bozhobg

      @bozhobg It’s not. That model treats people as commodities and centralises power & control.

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    4. Bozhidar Bozhanov‏ @bozhobg 27 Dec 2015
      Replying to @aral

      @aral does it have to? Take stackoverflow. Ads are based on content on current page, people's answers are used by everyone in the community

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    5.  🐃/ 🐻 кунев  🐃/ 🐧‏ @erkunev 27 Dec 2015
      Replying to @bozhobg

      @bozhobg @aral ads *can* be useful. Especially in a model where you have a choice between a free ad-sponsored and paid ad-free mode.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    6.  🐃/ 🐻 кунев  🐃/ 🐧‏ @erkunev 27 Dec 2015
      Replying to @erkunev

      @bozhobg @aral but the current assumption is everyone's ok with ads, cause "it's free, so stop wining ffs". That's obviously broken.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      Aral Balkan‏ @aral 28 Dec 2015
      Replying to @erkunev

      @erkunev @bozhobg Ads aren’t the problem; tracking, profiling, and simulating human beings is the problem (when that data is owned by corps)

      10:36 AM - 28 Dec 2015
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        2. Bozhidar Bozhanov‏ @bozhobg 28 Dec 2015
          Replying to @aral

          @aral yup. So, we make a distributed ad platform where the users control their data and we're done :) @erkunev

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        3.  🐃/ 🐻 кунев  🐃/ 🐧‏ @erkunev 28 Dec 2015
          Replying to @bozhobg

          @bozhobg or simply advertise based on the context being served, not on a simulation of the supposed viewer. @aral

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        4.  🐃/ 🐻 кунев  🐃/ 🐧‏ @erkunev 28 Dec 2015
          Replying to @erkunev

          @bozhobg overspecifying ads actually makes them less valuable, apart from the obvious tracking issue. @aral

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        5. Bozhidar Bozhanov‏ @bozhobg 28 Dec 2015
          Replying to @erkunev

          @erkunev yup. I bought a leapmotion. For a month after that I was getting leapmotion ads. I already have it, idiots.. @aral

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        1. Bozhidar Bozhanov‏ @bozhobg 28 Dec 2015
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          @aral ...and then "Fuck Ad Block" will be possibly a good thing @erkunev

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