@brawaru @aurynn

I would rather pay a sub than be forced to watch adverts. It's why I never watch live TV or listen to the radio. Trust me, once you've been ad-free for a few years you start to see them for what they are - psychologically manipulative.

@brawaru I do not owe anyone a working business model.

@brawaru @aurynn If their services are accessible despite my adblocker, I am going to access them. If they don’t have a business model that can deal with this reality, that is not my problem.

@brawaru @aurynn Ad networks are a prime source of malware. Ad’s are made of code and the ad companies rarely scan the code for viruses.

A lot of tech people run ad blockers for security.

@brawaru @aurynn I'm gonna be honest, I don't think that these companies are stressing about their own ethical side of the interaction.

I don't think they worry about the trackers watching your browsing history and profiling you or the headlines you realize are deceptive after you've already clicked a link. But you are worried that you're not watching enough ads for them?

@cubeofcheese @aurynn ask yourself if any journalism source has ever bothered asking you what YOU want to see. And yet they think they're entitled to your information?

@cubeofcheese

I stopped feeling guilty about using #Blokada, #uBlockOrigin and #PiHole when I realised that the advertising industry had pulled me into an opaque and intrusive surveillance system without asking. We now understand how badly they behave just because they can, and how hard they make it to find out what happens to our data. The only reasonable response is to opt out.

@aurynn