@XaiaX @wirehead2501 Yeah, that's not a responsive answer. They don't get the ad revenue when I don't visit the site, either.
@wirehead2501 @flooey Yes, it's somehow my job to earn imperceptible amounts of money for people by enduring perceptible harm to myself.
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@chaosprime@wirehead2501@flooey it’s not your job, just don’t pretend your actions aren’t harmful. -
@XaiaX@chaosprime@flooey i'm not pretending. i don't believe it. i'm opting out of a broken system while supporting creators directly. -
@wirehead2501@chaosprime@flooey no, you’re not. You’re supporting some creators and telling the others I Got Mine. -
@XaiaX@chaosprime@flooey on average i am surely paying more into the system than they would earn from ads. -
@wirehead2501@chaosprime@flooey I don’t know who “they” or “the system” is, though. -
@XaiaX@chaosprime@flooey the ecosystem, then? like if i and everyone else paid $5 to each of our 5 favorite sites... -
@wirehead2501@chaosprime@flooey that’s not where we live. I would love a better system but we do not have it. -
@XaiaX@chaosprime@flooey ads are included on a site in a speculative way and it's assumed not everyone will load or see them. - 4 more replies
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@chaosprime@flooey your job which you never applied for or accepted but you're supposed to JUST KNOW! -
@wirehead2501@chaosprime@flooey there’ve been ads on the internet for kind of a while. -
@XaiaX@chaosprime@flooey yes, just like there are ads everywhere in life, and i ignore all of them too and no one seems to care. -
@wirehead2501@chaosprime@flooey it’s not analogous, though. Analogy would be you having the ads load and then not looking at them. -
@XaiaX@chaosprime@flooey i mean, analogous to changing the radio station = adblock. tuning out ads on radio = loading but ignoring. -
@wirehead2501@chaosprime@flooey radio advertisers pay based on listenership averages and no one changes the station EVERY time. -
@XaiaX@chaosprime@flooey i do, actually. i am like allergic to advertising. it stresses me out.
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@chaosprime@flooey it's like record labels. i'd rather support creators directly than consent to ads that pay them fractions of pennies.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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