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How is admitting the possibility of something shitting on them? I am trying to understand.

Are there any famous examples of that being used?

It is not completely irrelevant. It is simply indirectly relevant. The reason people are keen to deny Reddit ad revenue is because the API issue pissed a lot of people off.

Ad blocking alone wouldn't prevent sponsored posts from showing up, and sponsored posts are also ads.

Stop insulting people before you understand things completely. If you cannot understand other people and just think everyone is an idiot, you might want to get yourself screened for autism. And that's not an insult, it's a suggestion.

Because they are acting/thinking irrationally. I'm not entirely sure what the solution to that is except to gently, slowly, and dispassionately ask small binary questions to lead them in explaining their thought processes until they've explained far enough that they admit the position they hold is fundamentally rooted in irrational emotion rather than logic.

At that point, they ultimately have a choice to make. They can admit they are being irrational, embrace it, and continue to act irrationally intentionally, or they can change their position.

I think this approach to conversation is infinitely more productive than both sides just yelling past each other and neither side actually speaking the same language.

Evidently he has Asperger's, so there might be a non-nefarious explanation for his lack of understanding of social things and why he is both simultaneously so successful/creative but also completely socially inept.

He might be actually incapable of understanding others' perspectives.

And my claim is that many mobile phone users who used 3rd party apps did not even need a separate ad blocking solution, the apps already blocked them. Thus your claim that "ad blocking has not changed" is wrong.

The ads were blocked from me before, and the app I used is no longer available. That is the definition of changed for my use case. Maybe understand that not everyone uses things the way you use things, you condescending windbag.

Reminds me of that cost of a recall calculation scene from Fight Club.

I don't know if that's the reasoning that will hold up in court. Would a judge say a 1 in a billion chance is "extremely likely? That reasoning would apply to all cars in general wouldn't it? Driving is potentially dangerous no matter what car you drive. People are guaranteed to die in car accidents everyday just by sheer volume and that would be true if Tesla didn't exist.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not apologizing for them. I'm just dubious of getting a conviction.

Yep, that's what I said. Not a specific app. So you don't actually have an app in mind do you? I'm not reading a bunch of reddit threads to back your claim for you. You are simply wrong until you back your claim. I mean you can simply tell me what app you use right? The app that's free and ad free when using your suggested VPN?

Do we have probability numbers yet for likelihood of accident? And if so, would that satisfy "extremely likely?" The letter of the law can be fickle.

Do you understand that we have a FPTP voting system and the ramifications of that?

Amazing specificity. It's almost like you won't give specifics because you don't know.