What’s worse is you have no idea how bad we’ve been propagandized to think that there is any amount of ads that is “normal.”
The first time you are traveling through a European countryside and you don’t see any billboards on the side of roads, as Americans we are flabbergasted.
It’s something that’s become so normalized here in the US that being somewhere without them feels almost like time-traveling now.
Europeans don’t even realize how crazy it is here.
You can be driving to the middle of fucking east Texas and you’ll see LITERALLY hundreds of billboards along just a 50 mile stretch, advertising everything from truck-driving scam schools to religious propaganda condemning you for presumptively not believing how God‘s going to smite you for thinking women should have a say in how to be in control of their bodies or some shit.
I will never be convinced that any amount of ad blocking, pi-hole installation, DNS sanitizing, VPN protection, 3rd party app that taps quietly into shittier ad-riddled 1st party app content layers to siphon out only what I want to see, etc. are not me just merely using my very limited ability to fight back against an insane amount of their overreach.
First off, I couldn’t care less about ad blocking and I’m not here to moralise what anyone else does.
I do however think your point is somewhat undermined by the fact YouTube have an ad free option. You can legitimately make the ads disappear and YouTube have no issue with it.
Google makes literal hundreds of billions of dollars every year. You really think I give a shit that they supposedly operate YouTube at a “loss?” - Something I might add I hugely suspect is bullshit book-cooking the likes of which we usually more often associate with Hollywood production companies looking to steal from the creatives on every project they greenlight.
I mean - I have a fucking cheap ass media server that delivers up a customized collection of videos anywhere I want at a quality higher than every other streaming platform that exists for less money per YEAR for even the cost of one of these “services” does… per MONTH.
I find the idea that any of these shit platforms should be costing anybody $170 goddamn dollars a year per service to be completely absurd.
I find it even more absurd, however, that there are actually people here of all platforms - not Facebook, not the shit stain that once was Twitter, not even the once hallowed “front page of the internet” Reddit, but the fediverse - whom will gleefully defend these stupid companies who could afford to let you watch everything they host for free just with the amount of ad revenue they rake in - let alone the data troves on me, you, your mom, your children and everyone else you know whether they use the platform or not that they gladly offer every shitmongering swindler.
What’s next?
You gonna tell me people are “thieves” for sneaking in an apple from their backyard tree, or hell, just a $0.10 bag of candy they bought from the local drugstore on the way to the theater instead of for $14.99 they are asked to fork over to the poor kid getting paid minimum wage to sweep up cumstains off the chairs at the top back row of the IMAX screen room after someone fucked their limited edition Dune 2 worm popcorn bucket?
Give me a fucking break.
Can’t believe you actually think these companies are sacrificing anything even remotely worth even considering let alone scolding others for mentioning their perfectly warranted distaste.
What’s worse is you have no idea how bad we’ve been propagandized to think that there is any amount of ads that is “normal.”
The first time you are traveling through a European countryside and you don’t see any billboards on the side of roads, as Americans we are flabbergasted.
It’s something that’s become so normalized here in the US that being somewhere without them feels almost like time-traveling now.
Europeans don’t even realize how crazy it is here.
You can be driving to the middle of fucking east Texas and you’ll see LITERALLY hundreds of billboards along just a 50 mile stretch, advertising everything from truck-driving scam schools to religious propaganda condemning you for presumptively not believing how God‘s going to smite you for thinking women should have a say in how to be in control of their bodies or some shit.
I will never be convinced that any amount of ad blocking, pi-hole installation, DNS sanitizing, VPN protection, 3rd party app that taps quietly into shittier ad-riddled 1st party app content layers to siphon out only what I want to see, etc. are not me just merely using my very limited ability to fight back against an insane amount of their overreach.
I fucking hate billboards man. Get them OUT.
First off, I couldn’t care less about ad blocking and I’m not here to moralise what anyone else does.
I do however think your point is somewhat undermined by the fact YouTube have an ad free option. You can legitimately make the ads disappear and YouTube have no issue with it.
Google makes literal hundreds of billions of dollars every year. You really think I give a shit that they supposedly operate YouTube at a “loss?” - Something I might add I hugely suspect is bullshit book-cooking the likes of which we usually more often associate with Hollywood production companies looking to steal from the creatives on every project they greenlight.
I mean - I have a fucking cheap ass media server that delivers up a customized collection of videos anywhere I want at a quality higher than every other streaming platform that exists for less money per YEAR for even the cost of one of these “services” does… per MONTH.
I find the idea that any of these shit platforms should be costing anybody $170 goddamn dollars a year per service to be completely absurd.
I find it even more absurd, however, that there are actually people here of all platforms - not Facebook, not the shit stain that once was Twitter, not even the once hallowed “front page of the internet” Reddit, but the fediverse - whom will gleefully defend these stupid companies who could afford to let you watch everything they host for free just with the amount of ad revenue they rake in - let alone the data troves on me, you, your mom, your children and everyone else you know whether they use the platform or not that they gladly offer every shitmongering swindler.
What’s next?
You gonna tell me people are “thieves” for sneaking in an apple from their backyard tree, or hell, just a $0.10 bag of candy they bought from the local drugstore on the way to the theater instead of for $14.99 they are asked to fork over to the poor kid getting paid minimum wage to sweep up cumstains off the chairs at the top back row of the IMAX screen room after someone fucked their limited edition Dune 2 worm popcorn bucket?
Give me a fucking break.
Can’t believe you actually think these companies are sacrificing anything even remotely worth even considering let alone scolding others for mentioning their perfectly warranted distaste.