Post #2043172
2026-05-05 19:57 UTC
Replies (7)
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@stevenally@mastodon.social 2026-05-05 20:26
@jack @Infrogmation It's ok. I just won't read their content. Therefore I have no moral obligatin to them. I'm fine with that.
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@mjc0961@mastodon.social 2026-05-05 21:03
@jack Smaller content creators, I throw them a couple bucks on Patreon and keep blocking the ads. They often have no control over what the ads are, so the ads are still usually scams regardless of conglomerate or smol bean.
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@LovesTha@floss.social 2026-05-06 02:01
@jack @Infrogmation pretty much every good and ethical ad gets around all blocking methods.
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@clouderst@abc.clouderst.xyz 2026-05-06 04:06
@jack @Infrogmation it's not that simple. Usually when someone puts and ad link, they don't put an *ad* link they put an adservice link. Adblockers block adservices over which anyway the creators don't have control. And they may show nasty stuff (think of google ads) good faith ads always get through adblockers because most of them are hardcoded into the website so it is permanent ad put there by the creator. It is noninvasive, compared tp google ads. So no, by using an adblocker you don't block revenue for small creators. This and the fact that patreon kofi liberapay exist
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@CppGuy@infosec.space 2026-05-06 07:12
@jack Even then, the content creator is asking me to disable my Pi-Hole for everyone and every device in the house. I'm not going to do that. #AdBlockingIsInfosec @Infrogmation
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@dirk@gts.0x7be.net 2026-05-06 12:46
@jack @Infrogmation The Web is a pull medium. Websites are merely guest in our browsers. We decide what content is shown.
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@lauerhahn@sfba.social 2026-05-22 20:17
@jack@xeno.glyphpress.com @Infrogmation@mastodon.online But the "disable your ad blocker" prompts are lying. I do not block ads. Your website can show me ads with no problems. What I block is spying on me and stealing from me.