celebrities doing things they only do because they get millions for it virtue signalling diversity statements without any relation to whatever product is sold A modern-day Computer Shopper would be filled with. I actually bought the thing - imagine that, paying money for a telephone book-sized magazine filled with nothing but ads - because it was useful in showing what the market had to offer.
#Youtube add blocker chrome full#
Give me a catalogue full of ads like the Computer Shopper magazine of yore and I'll sing praise of the advertisers who clearly showed what they sold for which prices. The question should not be whether blocking ads is morally defensible but the other way around, whether exposing yourself and others to "modern" advertising is defensible - to which the answer is a wholehearted "Hell No". I'd rephrase that to "and there are people who want to debate whether blocking advertisements is morally defensible" as this is not so much an indictment of "society" as it is an exposition of the moral bankruptcy of the advertising industry. > And we wonder why society is so fucked up. If a website blocks this, I am not going to sacrifise my experience and I am not interested in browsing it. I believe it is my right to adjust my browsing experience by affecting how websites are rendered in my browser to a degree I find reasonable, as well as from my side what data tracking I allow, which is already a huge compromise for me (I would rather not allow js by default in most websites). But for the occasional or ephemeral video or entertainment, I will just as easily live without, as the disruption ads cause is worse than not viewing that content.
I subscribe to patreon to the ones that I feel they bring value to my life. I use bandcamp to buy the music I like directly. I pay the people I want to support directly and that's it.
If a website says that I have to disable the adblocker to view it, and I cannot go around it, 99% of the times I do not visit it, I do not care. I will not, and probably cannot, pay and subscribe to any random website I am gonna visit to remove ads to make the experience tolerable, when I can just block the ads. Personalised or not, the vast majority is useless, badly made, that just takes processing time both for the computer and my brain. I could count the times that I have found an internet ad interesting in my lifetime using half the fingers of one hand. I just cannot browse the internet without adblocker, it is too slow, but more importantly too distracting. The whole internet is bloated with ads right now, and the vast majority of them quite the opposite of discrete.
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