Comment by Wowfunhappy
1 year ago
> If a site is really persistent about circumventing my adblocker, they are basically hostile to me and I should just leave.
Since you're not generating any revenue and are costing them bandwidth, the site likely prefers it that way...
Yes, I agreed. To be clear I’m not doing the silly thing of threatening to leave a site I’m not going to pay for. I’m describing the result that makes everybody happy.
This reminds me of how it's said that threatening to hire a lawyer is meaningless. Actually hiring a lawyer is serious.
Jordan Peterson elegantly demonsrated this recently