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Here is what it Apple said regarding my my refund. http://pastebin.com/2zgmekPi
The email confirming my request and the email confirming the refund had been accepted literally arrived in the same minute.
It must have been annoying for them to deal with thousands of refund requests by hand. I was expecting Apple would just bulk-approve refunds for this app, but it's great that they've gone one step further.
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Yep. Pretty easy to put your money where your mouth is when you have gobs of it.
That's just a pointlessly catty thing to say.
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I thought he was using Ghost's ad lists? I don't think he was making the decisions of which to block at all. He just made the tool that enabled those defined blocks to be made.
That's a fair point. However, by proxying that list to his users, he's still in the position of choosing which ads to block — even if he's delegating that authority to others (in essence, he's choosing who chooses).
About this guilt for ad-blocking thing: wasn't Marco's entire fortune (pre Tumblr buyout) made by selling a service used to bypass content owners entirely and read their articles without ads, in one page, and in his own templates?
(In general "which charity" has a simple answer: any. In general donating proceeds immediately solves accusations of self-interest, except perhaps for the component that it's reactionary rather than being announced ahead of time.)
> In general donating proceeds immediately solves accusations of self-interest Well, you still get the tax deducations, don't you? Plus the goodwill ("here I gave all those to charity") bought with other people's money.
Even I'm surprised at how popular ad blocking is becoming. I would not have expected the general public to be willing to actually pay money to block ads.
Of course, when you have ads that try to take over my browser (Android), won't go away when you hit the "go away" button (iOS), or ads that suddenly play loud audio (both), I guess it's no surprise that even the general public now regards online ads as a nuisance to be blocked.
I have to admit, I have uninstalled quite a few apps recently because of offensively-intrusive advertising.
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That's just a pointlessly catty thing to say.
Doesn't make it any less true to the point that's a trivial observation: people with more money can more easily afford to give some of it where "their mouth is".
Translation: "Ad blocking is turning out to be way more popular than we expected, and it's making some rich friends of mine very scared." Even I'm surprised at how popular ad blocking is becoming. I would not have expected the general public to be willing to actually pay money to block ads. Of course, when you have ads that try to take over my browser (Android), won't go away when you hit the "go away" button (iOS),…
While it was extensions for browsers etc, it was one thing. But now Apple (take note) has built it into their most talked about product.
And given how the media production and apple products are intertwined, suddenly the media people sit up, take notes, and start talking/writing about it.
- changing Peace into a more responsible content-blocker, if that was his concern
- giving the proceeds to charity
- putting the proceeds towards a new type of ad company, or a new type of new/media business
- funding scholarships for journalists