Are the goalposts really moving? Or are you talking to different people?
There are quite a lot of different people on the Earth with access to the internet and different perceptions of what ads are acceptable.
Companies shave costs and they're seen as shrewd, individuals do the same and they're seen as "cheap".
Re:Is it worth supporting Firefox?
by RestlessMind on Monday May 07, 2018 @12:59PM
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Trying to shave costs is very reasonable, both for companies and individuals. Let's just be honest about it.
Re:Is it worth supporting Firefox?
by jiveturkey on Monday May 07, 2018 @11:27AM
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it’s not just about as cheap as possible. ads are free.
Ads are not free. They cost users in bandwidth, device battery, and website usability.
forget all this. They steal my attention/time which is an orders of magnitude greater offense.
So you are on board with Google's acceptable ads initiative then?
What I find frustrating is that people (in aggregate, not individually) keep moving goalposts. First, it's about annoying ads and how they will accept good ads. When presented with good ads, it becomes about tracking and how they will pay for the subscription. When subscription is available, how it is too heavy handed and they want something more flexible like micropayments. When you get micropayments, it is about how they introduce so much friction and mental overload.
I have came to realize that people (again, in aggregate and not individually) just want stuff as cheap as possible; other reasons just seem like excuses.