I use ad blockers and open source privacy focused software whenever I can but occasionally I have to use computers that don’t belong to me or an older phone where my usual applications aren’t installed and seeing all the advertisements just feels dirty and dystopian.

I think the worst ads are the text to speech ones that say “Download this app today”. The unblinking energenic people saying you can make a living at home are probably a close second.

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    110 months ago

    I’m happy that the total destruction of the Internet into a Hellscape of graffiti and malware is helping your 300 people save a buck a month.

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      110 months ago

      I mean, tell those girls that. They’ll dox your ass but I’m sure it’d be worth it to make a point about advertisers.

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        010 months ago

        Ah. So turning the Internet into a Hellscape of graffiti and malware is fine so that 300 idiots who can’t afford a buck a month won’t, and I quote, “dox my ass”.

        What’s the word again for a (typically very small) minority trying to force their will on a (typically very large) majority by using actions intended to create fear? You know, actions intended to create terror in the target audience. The word’s on the tip of my tongue…

        Fuck the 300. If they can’t afford a buck a month then their hobby can just die. I don’t want to have to put up with advertising spam on literally everything my eyes fall on just because 300 “girls” will “dox my ass”.

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          110 months ago

          It’s a niche hobby so they don’t really effect any part of the internet other than their own.

          Do you know anything about Japanese Street fashion as a hobby…

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            110 months ago

            If they perpetrate and normalize advertising-driven income, they effect every part of the Internet. That’s the whole point of this entire thread: ads are the Original Sin™ of the Internet and shit little sites like this perpetuate this toxic mix.

            If they can’t pay a buck a month for themselves, their hobby deserves to die.