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Comment by akersten

6 hours ago

Man, I wish folks calibrated their E(I am actually wrong|downvotes). Have you considered what that value could be in this case?

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WarmWash  5 hours ago

Creators don't get compensation when people ad-block.

Creators don't get compensation when LLMs scrape.

It's totally, and completely, unambiguous. The internet just has collective brain damage from the grassroots morals of it being formed 30 years ago by teenagers. How surprising that a bunch of kids decided that the way to save the internet was to make it better for themselves, and worse for the people who make the internet the thing they love.

Some of us have grown up now, and realize the correct answer to save the internet was to not engage with ad supported content period.

  • akersten  3 hours ago

    > It's totally, and completely, unambiguous. The internet just has collective brain damage

    The point that continues to be missed is that instead of taking downvotes as validation that people simply failed to comprehend the argument you're making (they didn't), you should take them as a check to reevaluate whether your conclusion is as unambiguous as you believe.

    • WarmWash  2 hours ago

      It is rock solid.

      There is no way to reconcile an internet where the suckers who cannot figure out ad-block carry the overhead costs for those who do. It costs money to create the content you consume, it costs money to serve the content you consume. The internet is not some magical exemption from standard financial practice going back millennia. The cost is your burden, take it or leave it. But don't take it then do mental gymnastics about why it's not actually something you value while walking away with free, shifting the cost onto the next guy.

  • Forgeties79  5 hours ago

    There are ways to get paid without ads and you can do on-air reads like I said. adblockers don’t impact them. You also don’t have to play Google and YouTube’s games. I’m sorry folks are caught in that arm’s race between users and Google but Google has made browsing so miserable it’s just reality.

    Adblocking is basic security now. I am not compromising on it. I say this as a “content creator”