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Do you use adblock? Why? Why not? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 2 years ago by tsukii to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

So far for every project that I care of, creator, software or news, I pay for. Everything else, like YouTube or Social Media are mostly alive because of my content or my user data. If that's not enough then I won't really miss it. I grew up with much smaller communities and so far every site that was complaining about AdBlock, also wasn't worth disabling it. For some streams I turn off adblocker once in a while until I can't take the ads anymore. Sites that complain undervalue sharing of articles, a click doesn't cost them as much as a possible ads viewer would gain them.