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[–] chiliedogg 19 points 10 months ago

Which is 100% fine by them.

They've created a situation where we HAVE to use ad-blockers for security, so they instead have to sell our data.

If they can't make money off ads OR selling our data AND we won't pay to view the content, all we're really doing is using up their bandwidth.