Re:Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets
by Klathmon on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @12:07PM
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You can't just distill the argument down to that any more than I can say "going to the doctor is paying someone to not kill you"...
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Re:Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets
by Spivak on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @12:50PM
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I'm going to add content to my website that, if asked, nearly all of my users would prefer to be absent, and then charge those users to remove that content.
The pattern is, intentionally make a service worse, and then charge to 'make it better'.
The doctor analogy would be, "for an extra $1000 fee, your surgeon will wash his hands before the operation".
Re:Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets
by JadeNB on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @02:11PM
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> The pattern is, intentionally make a service worse, and then charge to 'make it better'.
Agreed; in the tech world, I'd call this the difference between buying a faster processor—the analogue of going to a doctor—and paying to avoid intentionally slowing down a processor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80486SX).