• ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 months ago

    F-Droid is also considering ads that contain no tracking, which removes that moral dillema, IMO:

    You assume everybody is okay with ads.

    I’m not. My brainspace has been highjacked since I was a little kid by stupid advertisers. To this day, I remember ads for products that have disappeared decades ago and that I never gave a shit about at any point in my life.

    Why are advertisers allowed to force their shit into my head?

    I hate ads. I’m utterly intolerant of advertising. I hate the tracking and the malware that come with ads, but I hate ads even more. There are no moral ads. The advertisement industry is a despicable leech that needs to die.

    If F-Droid springs this shit on me, I swear to god I’m gonna start having murderous thoughts…

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      3 months ago

      Would you pay a monthly fee for everything? YouTube Facebook Reddit random site you visit. We would need like a found in our browser and every site you visited took there chunk out or something like that. People seem to forget this stuff costs money to run.

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        3 months ago

        If the service is worth it and subscribing isn’t yet another opportunity to put me under surveillance - which is the main reason why, although I consume a lot of YouTube videos and I would genuinely pay Google for the service, I won’t - yes.

        Hint: Facebook and Reddit aren’t worth it. If they want to exit the ad-supported business model and disappear behind a paywall, I won’t miss anything in my life.

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      My brainspace has been highjacked since I was a little kid by stupid advertisers. To this day, I remember ads for products that have disappeared decades ago and that I never gave a shit about at any point in my life.

      Why are advertisers allowed to force their shit into my head?

      I hate ads. I’m utterly intolerant of advertising.

      This. So much this.