Re:Brave files adtech complaint against Google
by jancsika on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @06:08PM
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> So you're replacing ads with other ads, and you have reasons.
If a website owner changes from an ad supported website to reading ad copy in a podcast, your same criticism would apply.
Yet:
* by changing from ads to ads they get rid of entire classes of bugs: cryptominers, drive-by malware, click-jacking, etc. Perpetuating a capitalist system by requiring users to take undue risks to support my content != perpetuating a capitalist system without making users take those risks.
* by changing from ads to ads, I get rid of an entire class of privacy-invasions for my audience. Perpetuating a capitalist system while making users leak enormous amounts of data to who knows where != an perpetuating a capitalist system without making users do that.
There are probably other points to make. But that's enough to assert that ads != ads in your comment.
If a website owner changes from an ad supported website to reading ad copy in a podcast, your same criticism would apply.
Yet:
* by changing from ads to ads they get rid of entire classes of bugs: cryptominers, drive-by malware, click-jacking, etc. Perpetuating a capitalist system by requiring users to take undue risks to support my content != perpetuating a capitalist system without making users take those risks.
* by changing from ads to ads, I get rid of an entire class of privacy-invasions for my audience. Perpetuating a capitalist system while making users leak enormous amounts of data to who knows where != an perpetuating a capitalist system without making users do that.
There are probably other points to make. But that's enough to assert that ads != ads in your comment.
Halting.