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by TeMPOraL 4537 days ago
> The only way that most of these content providers can keep on providing value for you is to monetize you.

How about if they actually asked for money in a honest, up-front way, instead of treating users like a cattle to be milked? What the hell happened to the "exchanging value for money" business model?

> No one owes you anything. You want good free content to read then deal with the fucking overlays.

Me dealing (or not) with overlays is a completely orthogonal thing to the fact that people who employ those methods are at least disrespectful of their users, if not out-right dishonest.