I posted this question because I once saw a tweet that said something like:

“If you use adblock, you don’t care about creator’s point blank”

What is your opinion on this? Do you agree with them?

  • Downtide
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    1 year ago

    yes, because no ads basically means my antivirus software has nothing to do. Creators have no choice over what ads are served up with the content and 99% of ads are loaded with malware whether you click on them or not.

    Creators need to come up with better ways to monetise their content instead of relying on them.

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      1 year ago

      My antivirus loadout for computer-illiterate relatives’ computers used to be intense and involve multiple pieces of software. Now it’s just uBlock Origin, Windows Defender, and turn on auto-update on everything. Because if you’re running a good ad blocker in an up-to-date browser on an up-to-date OS and your techie relative puts the fear of god into you about downloading weird executables you’re basically fine currently.