I agree. I do not need my mind polluted with artificial wants for products I don't need. It's not my capitalist duty to watch ads. Website owners, if you're pissed off about me aggressively blocking ads, then make it easy for me to give you money. Don't try to subvert my adblock, because I'm just gonna go away. Don't lecture me about adblock without giving me an option to pay (DuckDuckGo, I'm still waiting on a response for that email on how to send you money instead of watching your ads).
I hope that if bitcoin (or any other crypto) takes off, then it really will be easy. Bitcoin works the way money on the internet should have always worked: easy, between individuals, nobody else's business but the people who are actually doing business. :-)
Do you have a citation for that? Is it true that if you make methods of payment accessible to anyone, including people who don't have credit cards, people would still prefer to sit through ads than to pay the lost revenue from that unwatched ad? If I could instantly whisk away a penny for each ad I don't watch or whatever, I imagine this might be more popular.
Look at the number of projects that ask for donations (that are actually useful) that get little to no money from its users. It's pretty well known that the majority of people will not donate if they don't need to (I've been a part of a few).
I'm fine with you using Adblock. I just don't want to hear complaining when companies go out of business and jobs are lost (which is happening right now due to this) or we end up with a few corporations supplying all of the content.
This does nothing but make it so small and independent websites can't make a living anymore and large corporations rule with content. It's the same with piracy. They can take the hit, the small companies can't.
All because you can't be bothered by seeing an advertisement .
> All because you can't be bothered by seeing an advertisement .
Let's step back a little and think of how me looking at advertisements is supposed to be fueling the economy.
When I look at ads, I'm supposed to be given an incentive to buy something. I look at an ad in order to create a need in me that didn't exist before I viewed that ad. By creating that need, I'm supposed to go out and buy something I didn't want in the first place. What I wanted in the first place was to view something on some website, not to go out and give someone else money.
So, let's cut the middleman advertiser. I don't want to be given artificial needs and give someone else money. I want to give the original person money.
To me it is kind of like waiters and tip being an expected part of their wage. Instead they should just have a real salary and a tip is something outside of the norm for exceptional service.
Just owning a website doesn't mean you are entitled to make ad revenue. If your website can't generate money in any other way then your business model should probably be changed. Make it easy to accept donations for exceptional quality for people who are willing to donate.
I'm not sure I understand your reasoning. Assuming they run a profitable business, telling them that they should change their business model because you don't like ads is like arguing that Nike should charge less because their shoes don't cost $90 to manufacture. You can argue until you are blue in the face about why something shouldn't be the way it is, but it won't change the fact that despite your pleas to the contrary (and perhaps intuition), that IS the way it is.
My reasoning is that people can easily disable ads and there is no way for them to stop people. To rely on something that is at the control of the end user is just going to be bad for their business in the long run.
I hope that if bitcoin (or any other crypto) takes off, then it really will be easy. Bitcoin works the way money on the internet should have always worked: easy, between individuals, nobody else's business but the people who are actually doing business. :-)