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How I Experience Web Today (2021)

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450 points airstrike | 1 comments | 14 Oct 24 19:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.194s | source
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anyfoo ◴[14 Oct 24 19:50 UTC] No.41841184[source]▶
What I always don't understand is: So you don't want to pay for online content, but you also want to use an ad blocker. In summary, you don't want the author or creator to get paid?

Personally, I hate ads, so I pay. I have digital subscriptions to the newspapers I read. I have YouTube Premium (because I spend an ungodly amount of time on that site).

But for people who want to do neither... what's your idea?

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1. throwaway833884 ◴[14 Oct 24 22:45 UTC] No.41842977[source]▶
The thing here is that many of us aren’t interested in paid content, but we keep getting shuttled to paid content due to googles goggles. There is so much free content on the web but we don’t get directed there because we are stuck in an advertising loop. Google intentionally directs us to a site with “paid content writers” to propagate their ruin the internet with advertising scheme, thereby “ruining the internet.”