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That's just fine as far as the site is concerned.
They provide content that is paid for by ads. When you block the ads, you're using up bandwidth and not contributing to the site's revenue. They want you gone.
We want them gone. The market goes where the users use it. The Internet did not have the advertising presence it does now when it was conceived. Saying they want us gone means they are the only game in town. They aren't. They are too big for their britches and need to realize the users dictate the usage.
Rose-colored glasses, dude.
The internet was full of never-ending pop-ups that opened 2 more windows every time you closed one 25-30 years ago, and the viruses they carried fucked your computer to the point you had to do a clean Windows install. Spam.filters didn't work and you'd get 500 unfiltered spam messages a day, and since you were on 28-56k using a POP3 system it took an hour to download them before you could sort through them.
Shit's bad now, but it was way, way worse back then.
I use Linux. That's YOUR choice.
I talk about the prevalence of online ads 30 years ago when Linux was first getting a GUI and wasn't supported by any major hardware companies, and you respond with this bullshit?
Fuck right off with that argument.
You didn't just move the goalpost you changed fields, leagues, and sports.
Almost like I saw the issue and resolved it with knowledge rather than being a victim. If you want to continue to be an asshole about it, you can fuck off with being too stupid to see that shit is different when you can see through the BS ahead of time.
Do you mean back when it was only the government and universities connected to it, before the web existed? Those times were very different. Practically user was contributing to the internet some way, either through time (like actually creating the software to use it, and once the web existed, creating sites) or money.
These days, there's a significantly larger number of freeloaders that want everything for free, without contributing anything back. So far, advertising has been the only effective model to support such users that don't want to pay.
Yeah it really is choosing beggars. If you don't want to look at ads to view content you should pay for it.
Peak monetisation. Don't let them even see the article [copied from another website and run through ChatGPT] until they fork over the entrance fee.
At least you won't use up that bandwidth routing traffic through pihole. You also get a nice cache for faster loading on frequented sites.
But everyone wants everything for free...
Nobody wants to work anymore
You wouldn’t download a job