Re:ChatGPT serves ads. Here's the full attribution loop
by tomhow on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @05:07AM
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Please don't reply to a bad comment with another bad comment. It just makes things worse.
Re:ChatGPT serves ads. Here's the full attribution loop
by encom on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @06:17AM
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Oh no. Will you be adjusting my daily allotted posts further down? Yea I know about your shadow ban. Classy.
Re:ChatGPT serves ads. Here's the full attribution loop
by tomhow on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @05:25PM
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Please don't sneer. My comment was about as mild an ask as we ever make. We won't be adjusting anything, and indeed we'd happily turn the rate limiter off if you just respect the guidelines. This is only a place where people want to participate because we have guidelines and people make the effort to observe them. There's no reason why you couldn't be one of them. We want this to be a place where the full range of positions and perspectives can be represented and discussed, but snark and contempt just drags the place down, regardless of anyone's ideology.
Running an adblocker today isn't so much about blocking ads, as it's about blocking the hostile advertiser industry who spy, profile, fingerprint and scam and whatnot. Blocking advertising is the only moral choice; these people are criminals. I would never let my mom browse the Internet without an adblocker. You think she knows which download button is the correct one to pick?
Making advertising unprofitable is the activist goal, so choice "1: no ads", in your scenario, becomes the only available option.