I posted this question because I once saw a tweet that said something like:
“If you use adblock, you don’t care about creator’s point blank”
What is your opinion on this? Do you agree with them?
It’s a bummer that blocking ads prevents some creators from getting money, but I’m not losing any sleep over it.
I don’t mind sponsored segments in videos and podcasts. However, the ads on YouTube and on many websites are invasive and annoying. That’s why I block them, and I won’t be turning it off.
The internet is an usuable hellhole without uBlock Origin. I don’t give two shits if creators are losing money. All you’re ‘creating’ for me is annoyance with those invasive autoplaying video abombinations.
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Of course. And I’ll continue to do so as long as advertisement is detrimental to my online experience. If it wastes my time by forcing me to watch an ad before a video, if it distracts me from reading a text because of animations, if it tries to scam or shock me, I’m better off blocking it. I’m not against advertisement as communication that a useful product or service exists, I’m against advertisement abuse and greed.
I’ll happily pay for, donate to, or otherwise support services important to me that need and deserve it.
Man I don’t even know how people use the internet without an adblocker. It’s literally impossible to focus on the content with all the pop ups and banner ads it’s such a bad experience.
I use it because I feel like ad’s are forced on me at every turn in my life. Its not just the internet, but everywhere I go IRL. Bilboards on every road and highway. I actually think billboards should be illegal everywhere as they are an eyesore. Ad’s at the gas pump when I’m filling up. Restaurants I go to with signs for unrelated businesses. At the store when the radio is playing. The radio is it’s own mess. I have no idea how people listen to 3 songs an hour with no option to skip a song you don’t like.
No creator is worth catching some dodgy-ass computer std from someone’s drive-by ad.
I use AdBlock (and SponsorBlock on YouTube, and a cookie whitelist and a JavaScript whitelist) because only I decide what to see on my screen.
I do, I hate fucking ads.
If you, as a creator, choose to use advertising to monetize your content you don’t respect the limited lifetime of the people consuming your content or their security or about the way the marketing and advertising industry is destroying our society, such as (not exhaustive, just off the top of my head right now)
- building a surveillance economy, destroying privacy in the process
- manipulating people into voting in certain ways that are harmful to them and others
- protecting harmful products from scrutiny (e.g. tobacco, alcohol, products with too much sugar or fat or low quality ingredients, the car and oil industries, corporate climate change denial,…)
- encouraging overconsumption both in terms of quantity and in terms of items or services they don’t really need
- destroying content platforms with their mantra “not advertiser friendly”, leading to dystopian self-censorship on e.g. Youtube
And then there is the way internet advertising can spread malware and compromise the security of websites in general.
If you do want to monetize content in other ways there are models such as subscriptions or Patreon-style that are a lot more respectful of the user.
Absolutely. I understand things aren’t for free, but if you make my experience subpar I’m blocking ads.
I wish more creators would make content available across more platforms.
Oh yeah, I completely forgot to mention the way the advertising industry has basically ignored every feedback from users for two decades or more by making ads ever more intrusive and obnoxious. They reap what they sow.
I do, because they are my devices and I get to choose what they do. Not some content creator.
This is the pcgamer website without adblock!
I discovered this this morning as I was trying out a Lemmy app (thunder) instead of my ad blocked Firefox and followed an article link.
In less than 600 words there were:
- 3 full page ads to dismiss
- an auto playing video taking up 1/4 of the screen that follows as you scroll
- a sticky animated footer banner
- and a half page animated ad between each paragraph.
Fuck that. Fuck any organizational that does that to it’s product or has that level of contempt for it’s users.
I support content creators but ad block is necessary for safety, privacy, and the overall usability of the Internet.
If you use adblock, you don’t care about creator’s point blank
If you put ads on your website, you don’t care about users point blank.
Absolutely. Ublock origin which also blocks YouTube ads and running a pihole for my home network for the rest of the devices.
If you use adblock, you don’t care about creator’s point blank
This sounds a lot like not tipping being a bad thing.
Ads and tipping denigrate my daily experience. So I’m not going to suffer either.
Blocking ads is also just more secure as it’s a vector for so many exploits.
In conclusion, I don’t agree with them at all.
