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A comment on The Rise of Adblock Shaming.

Re:The Rise of Adblock Shaming by UncleEntity on Saturday July 14, 2018 @05:36PM (#17532517)
> It is a socialist cudgel—something that forces otherwise lazy capitalists to find new and inventive ways to make their creations sustainable.

Umm, yeah...

Other than pure rent-seeking every single thing under the sun could be considered a "socialist cudgel" by this logic.

I honestly don't understand how they are trying to further their argument by using this quote in the article.

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Re:The Rise of Adblock Shaming by wild_preference on Saturday July 14, 2018 @06:14PM (#17532680)
I don’t even get it.

HNers complain about having to subscribe to both Netflix and Hulu. What options does my 10 year old collaborative writing forum for mostly teens have?

Now that my ad revenue has died over the years, all that’s left is the charity of me paying out of my pocket. Then we’ll be left with centralized sites like Reddit.

I guess is the utopia that HNers envision.

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