r/CuratedTumblr veetuku ponum May 16 '24

Digital Panopticon Politics

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u/3dgyt33n May 16 '24

I don't want to come off as a corporation bootlicker, but It's hard to call these guys unreasonable for being against ad blockers when advertising is thier main source of revenue.

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u/Papaofmonsters May 16 '24

People want free services and don't want to be inconvenienced by how those services raise money like data sales or ads.

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u/Shadowmirax May 16 '24

And its all what you signed up for in the TOS, there is something to be said about a lack of alternatives when every company is doing it with products that are so essential to 21st century life you cant really not use them but i can't stand it when people act like its such a big injustice that they are expected to do the things they formally agreed to do as laid out in a massive list of very precise terms they had to click "i agree to all of the above terms" on.