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by beeboop 1219 days ago
If I had the ability to use the internet and never had links to content that refuses to be presented with out ads or paywalls, then I would gladly do so. Unfortunately that isn't an option, so I use ad block. I am convinced that 95%+ of the content we view on the internet today would still exist if there was no way to monetize it. But because it's monetized, we have the same news story, same recipe, same how-to guide, etc all repeated a million times over. It creates a ton of garbage and fluff and noise that brings no value to the planet to be duplicated so many times.
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When I meet a paywall, I hit the back button.

When too many JS pop-ups appear, I hit the back button.

Rarely does a website deny access when they detect ad-block, but I’ll happily hit the back button.

Website owners can do whatever they want. I’m not going to look at ads, and that’s a personal choice.