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Everyone wants an easy and stress free life. If you create a reputation for yourself of chasing competitors through the courts then you make yourself into a target. "Do to others a…

Impression ads are important for certain industries and bigger publications. I will agree that PPC ads are common in other areas and ad blocker users wouldn't click them. For impre…

It sounds like the people behind the ad blocker broke Ajax for that website while trying to block the ads - that's the mistake I am referring to. You mention that native ads are gr…

Does it matter if they stop visiting the site? Considering that they are using resources without giving something back in return? I guess it could be argued that they might be prom…

You aren't looking this from a bigger picture. The more infrastructure that is put in place to protect single parents, the more infrastructure that gets in the way for standard fam…

The most obvious example in the real world is those huge scientific projects like Cern's LHC, which requires the co-operation of multiple governments - no individual or team could …

To me, that would be a sign that you are winning the battle. If enough websites fight ad blockers, especially big sites, and the people behind those ad blockers make clumsy mistake…

It's called technical 'progress' - as technology progresses, you need bigger and more specialised teams of technicians. It reaches a point where huge entities like governments and …

> Maybe I am a linux hermit, but you guys really abide this shit? Didn't Ubuntu do something like this with search in the past? These companies love to cream off whatever extra inc…

> Also, it appears that statistically, single mothers are much more likely to vote Left than Right. If you're married to the state, then you vote for more of the state. It's one of…

It somehow reminds me of those advert bars that people used to put on their desktops and be paid to view adverts in the late 90s - early 2000s. There was so much money in online ad…

I used to work with a programmer who literally did nothing for over a year - he came into the office and sat there browsing the web. He was the highest paid employee. Everyone knew…

Private healthcare insurance is also offered as a benefit in places like the UK, but it tends to be the bigger companies that offer it. It means the employee can get their treatmen…

Their high end market has also shifted from professional tools to fashion objects.

> Are we drug dealers? Developers build the infrastructure that manufactures the drugs. The owners of that infrastructure are kingpins. The users of these platforms are drug dealer…

One of the main problems with Twitter is people sign up and don't know what to do with it - except message famous people. If Twitter prevents the plebs from shouting at the intelli…

I think counting it in decades rather than years is more realistic. So many major innovations are described as being in the next ten years. If you look at VR, which I think is simp…

Only reason I own a smartphone is to fit in while working - it was like being an outsider with everyone else getting information immediately via Trello and Slack. I would often mis…

When I say 'processed', I mean meat like ham or beef - stuff that I would expect to be real meat, but instead it's sliced from what I guess you could call a mold of reformed scraps…

I've only been to a Subway outlet once and was amazed by how much of it was processed meat - a relative said the same recently. Go into a good independent sandwich shop and all the…