Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back
by staindk on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @09:47AM
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The free coffee story is clearly just an analogy to the adblock thing.
Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back
by ToucanLoucan on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @09:49AM
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That's possible, but it doesn't sound like an analogy to me, and I've known enough selfish assholes in my life to absolutely be able to picture this as a real thing that's currently happening.
Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back
by Workaccount2 on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @09:55AM
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gestures towards the masses of shameless ad-blocking internet users
Even here on HN, the first thing people do when a paywalled article is posted is provide the archive.ph bypass.
And no, this is not a personal attack. This is an evaluation of your character as stated in your own comment. You and people like you are everything wrong with the modern world. People like you are why we have the most productive economy in human history and still have people starving to death next to grocery stores full of food. People like you are why people work 60 hours per week and still can barely afford to live. People like you built this awful, inhumane system that we're all forced to live under that exploits us at every single turn because there is no law against doing so, and so you do it. You put the screws to every last thing in your life to get maximum value returned for minimum effort.
I genuinely do not use the word hate lightly, but I would use it here.