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   dick flattening enthusiast (dickflatteningenthusiast@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 00:20:02 JST dick flattening enthusiast
   Adblock has left me relatively blind to the sinister creep of adspace into every facet of online interaction. I occasionally see someone's screen or use a work PC with no adblock and get a glimpse of commercialised digital hell, but by and large I've been protected from the worst of aggressive online advertising.
   
   As globohomo has determined that you don't in fact deserve to have a high quality browsing experience on the Internet, free from irritating advertisements at every single possible opportunity, there seems to be a push to mitigate adblocking software and I'm beginning to actually appreciate just how bad online advertising has become. It is absolutely fucking obnoxious, it is ALWAYS aggressive and disruptive to your online experience, and more often than not paid and premium services don't fully remove you from the advertising ecosystem either.
   
   I know this is no profound revelation, but this has crept up on me and I'm fucking horrified.
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 00:19:57 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     You can literally just pay a few dollars to not have ads practically anywhere, it’s just that nobody does and then everyone cries about ads.
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     sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 00:20:01 JST sj_zero

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     It's sort of funny just as adblock is becoming less effective, I'm retreating into spaces that I know don't have ads because I run the websites.
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     sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 00:50:47 JST sj_zero

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     • Fediverse Contractor
     I've been on YouTube premium for several years now, I'm happy to say that my son has almost never seen an advertisement. So while it may not apply to every single website that you go to, you are correct that for a lot of the most important ones you can just toss them a couple bucks and get the rich person's experience LOL
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     Grungeboi (inakah@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 08:41:32 JST Grungeboi

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     • sj_zero
     @bot people would hate ads less if they were less cancerous. @dickflatteningenthusiast @sj_zero
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     Grungeboi (inakah@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 09:09:48 JST Grungeboi

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     • Kerosene
     @Kerosene
     Yes:
     - We just opened this restaurant, please come to our opening event!
     - This company released a new product we think you'll like!
     No:
     - takes up way too much space
     - music or sound
     - the ad size changes in any way
     - so much more
     @dickflatteningenthusiast @bot @sj_zero
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     Kerosene (kerosene@bae.st)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 09:09:49 JST Kerosene

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     @inakah @dickflatteningenthusiast @bot @sj_zero I actually genuinely like good advertisement. Just show me something that's not obnoxious, doesn't cover the text/video/etc I'm looking at, and is a product or service I'm actually interested in. It's that easy. You would think they would have mastered the last point with all the truck loads of data they collect but 99% of what I see is shit I would never in a million years consider paying for.
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 04:28:56 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • JAJAX
     It’s actually a good take.
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     JAJAX (jajax@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 04:28:57 JST JAJAX

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     • sj_zero
     @bot @dickflatteningenthusiast @sj_zero >see idiotic take
     >don't immediately recognize the pfp
     >i wonder who it is
     >read the username
     >it's fucking bot
     because of course it is
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 04:30:22 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • JAJAX
     Wrong. So what’s your “solution”? Just pirate and steal everything?
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     JAJAX (jajax@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 04:30:23 JST JAJAX

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     • sj_zero
     @bot @dickflatteningenthusiast @sj_zero no it's a bad take
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     MMS21 :blobcatkirby: (mms21@seal.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 05:28:27 JST MMS21 :blobcatkirby:

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     • JAJAX
     A few weeks ago you said ad blocking isn't piracy. What changed your mind?
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 05:28:27 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • JAJAX
     Ad blocking isn’t piracy because that’s not what that word means.
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 05:31:38 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • JAJAX
     If it’s so terrible, why are you watching it at all? Maybe you should read a book instead.
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     JAJAX (jajax@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 05:31:39 JST JAJAX

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     • sj_zero
     @bot @dickflatteningenthusiast @sj_zero most content is of such low quality, or constructed so entirely to modify our behavior that they should be paying us to watch it. That which isn't could be better supported via things like patreon.
     
     Relying on advertisers to exist opens up too many perverse inventives which gave us the entertainment hellscape we've had for as long as I can remember.
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     MMS21 :blobcatkirby: (mms21@seal.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 07:05:04 JST MMS21 :blobcatkirby:

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     • sj_zero
     Hmm shall I maintain 50 bajillion subscriptions each with their own jew opt out forms which are full of dark patterns or install one browser extension (uBlock Origin). Tough choice.
     
     Do you think these services will continue to be ad free once you pay? TV used to be like that, until it wasn't, so why should I pay when it will inevitably lead down the same path lol
     
     https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/26/arts/will-cable-tv-be-invaded-by-commercials.html
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 07:05:04 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     I dunno, maybe don’t be a soyjack consoomer with a thousand subscriptions?