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Re:NPM Bans Terminal Ads by ken on Friday August 30, 2019 @01:49PM (#20840821)
How did you arrive at that "collective opinion"? Google and Facebook still seem to be doing OK. Even limited to developers, StackOverflow is being used as much as ever.
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Re:NPM Bans Terminal Ads by wvenable on Friday August 30, 2019 @01:57PM (#20840896)
I meant in this particular case. People accept that consumer products like Google and Facebook are funded by advertising.

We are talking about Free Software, libraries, and advertisements in the console. I think the collective opinion is that developers would rather not use that package than be subjected to ads in their console.

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Re:NPM Bans Terminal Ads by CJefferson on Friday August 30, 2019 @04:29PM (#20842395)
Well then that's easily solved. People who don't want ads, don't use the software.
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