• knightly the Sneptaur
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    4 months ago

    Some sites don’t work with ad blockers enabled.

    Some foods taste bad. One simply eats different foods.

    some small maintainer of neat online services (no, not Google, Meta, MS, …) also need their bills payed.

    If they can’t afford to host it at no cost to the user then they should charge for it.

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      4 months ago

      If they can’t afford to host it at no cost to the user then they should charge for it.

      That’s a lot more complex than displaying some ads.

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        It’s also more respectful to users and doesn’t create perverse incentives or invite third party ad servers to give their customers malware.