Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

Re:Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking thei... by kulahan on Friday June 16, 2023 @12:35PM (#36359504)

Bro, you're walking into their property and getting pissed at their decorations. They need to make money, and Americans at least have shown that they vastly prefer to pay for things and services by looking at ads, rather than by paying with money.

If you don't want ads, pay for the privilege and get reddit premium. If you don't want to pay and you can't handle ads and you refuse to use an adblocker but MUST keep visiting for some reason, then stop whining - you've directly refused every solution.

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Re:Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking thei... by matheusmoreira on Friday June 16, 2023 @12:42PM (#36359631)

We're walking into nothing. Our user agents are making a request to their HTTP server. It's not our faults if it replies with a free web page. All they have to do is return 402 Payment Required.

But they want that mass media appeal that comes with giving things out for free, don't they? Guess they'll have to deal with it. If they send ads along with their free pages, we'll delete them. I used to rip out the ads from the magazines too. Same thing.

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Re:Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking thei... by nvr219 on Friday June 16, 2023 @02:22PM (#36361327)

> If they send ads along with their free pages, we'll delete them.

IDK who "we" is in this sentence, but if you mean "the average internet user" then you're wrong. There are ads on Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, Google, YouTube, Twitter, PornHub... No significant percentage of the population has "deleted" these apps or websites because of ads.

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Re:Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking thei... by matheusmoreira on Friday June 16, 2023 @02:38PM (#36361615)

It means people like me, like the users of this site. It also means people who know me personally because I make sure to tell them about uBlock Origin and install it on every browser I use. You bet they like the ad-free web.

I can't help everyone but I try.

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Re:Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking thei... by HappMacDonald on Friday June 16, 2023 @08:31PM (#36365832)

I don't know who "we" is either. Which means I'm just extra confused by the large number of ad-blocker-blockers that exist on the internet. I mean, what disobedience surface are they even targeting? Literally nobody blocks ads, it's an urban legend! xD

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