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Re:AdNauseam: uBlock Origin fork silently clicking ads on be... by SoftTalker on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @10:19PM (#37231144)
You know how you pay for cable, and Hulu, and Netflix, and still have to sit through ads? It would be like that. If I'm going to have to watch ads anyway, I'll decline paying for the service, thanks. And go on blocking the ads.
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Re:AdNauseam: uBlock Origin fork silently clicking ads on be... by memefrog on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @12:01AM (#37231715)
I never had any ads on Netflix when I paid for it.
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Re:AdNauseam: uBlock Origin fork silently clicking ads on be... by SoftTalker on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @02:40PM (#37240377)
I might be wrong about Netflix, I have not watched it in a long time. But certainly many pay channels, pay sports networks, and pay streaming services also have ads. Sometimes skipable, sometimes not.
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Re:AdNauseam: uBlock Origin fork silently clicking ads on be... by coldtea on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @12:40AM (#37231944)
>You know how you pay for cable, and Hulu, and Netflix, and still have to sit through ads? It would be like that.

Not if it was made illegal to show ads on paid services.

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Re:AdNauseam: uBlock Origin fork silently clicking ads on be... by NoZebra120vClip on Thursday August 24, 2023 @07:23PM (#37255838)
The unlikely proposition of the GP is that a grassroots movement with browser extensions would somehow manage to overwhelm and destroy the advertising industry by rendering it unprofitable and nonsensical.

Passing such legislation would be rather redundant at that point, wouldn't it?

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