Re:BeGoneAds – A Python script that blocks ads by installing...
by jancsika on Monday June 10, 2019 @06:26PM
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> Comparing advertising and marketing to the ownership of human beings?
That's not exactly what happened here.
OP repeated the beginning of a truism: "ads fund the development of the web while at the same time causing a whole host of severe problems for its users (individually and as a whole)."
OP left a hole where the italized part of the truism should be.
OP asked HN to fill that hole.
On a side devoted to tech/software, it's either low effort or bad-faith to ask others to fill a hole in such a well-known truism.
In light of this I offer up a countervailing law, "Loki's Law:"
"If you leave a Hitler-sized hole in your argument, expect it to be filled accordingly."
That's not exactly what happened here.
OP repeated the beginning of a truism: "ads fund the development of the web while at the same time causing a whole host of severe problems for its users (individually and as a whole)."
OP left a hole where the italized part of the truism should be.
OP asked HN to fill that hole.
On a side devoted to tech/software, it's either low effort or bad-faith to ask others to fill a hole in such a well-known truism.
In light of this I offer up a countervailing law, "Loki's Law:"
"If you leave a Hitler-sized hole in your argument, expect it to be filled accordingly."