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These people are so funny, and have been around forever. They spend time customizing their filters to only block certain kinds of ads, or not blocking on sites they like. I can't imagine.
All so they can "support the site" by being subjected to ads for hard lemonade.
That's what gets me! If you engage with the concrete activity they put so much weight on - observing some banners for hard lemonade or whatever interspersed with the content you're reading - it's just so absurd in a way that is hard to capture. A company is paying to subtly massage my neurons so I possibly have a 5% higher chance of buying hard lemonade next time I pick up a 6-pack for a friend's gathering. This is the value I bring to the table, shaping a bit of my soul to corporate ends.
I stare at each ad for 5 minutes so the site can maximize value.
The wildest thing about this is that these (usually affluent) people could quite literally throw $10 at the site, keep their adblock on, and then probably have donated more directly than the ad-platform EVER would have generated off of them.
Patreon is such a better model for Internet content than ads that it's unbelievable that it took so long to come about. I guess the problem is that it cuts corpos out of the loop.
Well, it cuts some corpos out of the loop. Patreon corpos still get their slice.
brb making adtech to serve ads for cyanide capsules and microtargeting it at people with ad blockers but who have whitelisted the site
/j