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The most annoying thing is whenever I encounter a form with an email input I get an ad right there -- "use our email mask relay! First five are free!" I can probably turn it off somehow but I feel like it should be opt-in or at least live elsewhere.
Just abandon Firefox and switch to another Firefox-based browser.
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I don’t disagree with you at all, but it’s not like we didn’t have alternatives. We could’ve just paid for the content, directly subsidising the creators we like.
>We could’ve just paid for the content, directly subsidising the creators we like. That wasn't an option. And if it had been, they would've rolled out monetization through ads anyway. If you believe otherwise, there's too much we disagree on to sum it up here.
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There's more to ads than banners and unskippable videos. I bet if you open YouTube, even with Adblock and sponsorblock, you'll see ads. "Tech" channels are nothing but ads because all they do is present products for people to buy. Even channels that do legos are ad channels. YouTube itself has become a platform for serving videos that are advertisement at their core. These videos are popular, get good engagement, pay…
Watching Youtube through Brave browser and I can't remember the last time I saw ads (ads by youtube, not by the content creator within the video). Twitch is different story, platform ads certainly play there. Prior to Brave, ublock origin on Firefox provided a similar ad-free Youtube experience. I don't consider ad content like the tech channels you mention to be a negative. Informing people about new products is a u…
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> It isn't just other CS majors any more. Hey, that's not fair! It also had nine year olds who bought a book about HTML and made shitty sites on Geocities!
Those were just CS majors before they majored in CS.
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>We could’ve just paid for the content, directly subsidising the creators we like. That wasn't an option. And if it had been, they would've rolled out monetization through ads anyway. If you believe otherwise, there's too much we disagree on to sum it up here.
It wasn't an option because people weren't willing to pay. A bit tautological, I know, but it simply wasn't a viable way to fund content. Think how many people use google versus paying for kagi.
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I'm still bitter about Google Reader going away. I endorse this sentiment.
What prevents you from using RSS now? Outsourcing your RSS feed to a megacorp sounds like a horrible idea.
But two things can be true at the same time. I'm still bitter about Google removing a great webapp from the internet so unceremoniously.