Re:"Ad blocking is the exact same thing as piracy“ – Linus T...
by salawat on Monday January 31, 2022 @05:49PM
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Uh huh. Nope.
You have no right to sell my screen space or processing capability. Sorry bout it. You want to display something? Go for it! I'm not inviting shady code into my network though.
>But my monetization!
Maybe... Just maybe... The Internet was not originally designed with first order support of doing nothing but putting stuff on the Internet, and not concentrating on figuring out your own business model.
When your customers habitually ad block, they are telling you "Not on my system," and that is okay.
We (the royal we) are not your eyeballs or sales to sell to someone else. Our attention is not something to be mined. Your audience is gifting you their attention. You are going and regifting it, and exposing them to God knows what, because I betcha LTT isn't in the business of picking WHO sends what content to fill those ad spots with.
You have no right to sell my screen space or processing capability. Sorry bout it. You want to display something? Go for it! I'm not inviting shady code into my network though.
>But my monetization!
Maybe... Just maybe... The Internet was not originally designed with first order support of doing nothing but putting stuff on the Internet, and not concentrating on figuring out your own business model.
When your customers habitually ad block, they are telling you "Not on my system," and that is okay.
We (the royal we) are not your eyeballs or sales to sell to someone else. Our attention is not something to be mined. Your audience is gifting you their attention. You are going and regifting it, and exposing them to God knows what, because I betcha LTT isn't in the business of picking WHO sends what content to fill those ad spots with.