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Let me pay for Firefox

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802 points csmantle | 4 comments | 13 Jul 25 08:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.661s | source
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mzhaase ◴[13 Jul 25 09:51 UTC] No.44548951[source]▶
We need more paid stuff. Making everything advertising funded has given advertisers too much power over society. We don't see real human opinion anymore, we see advertising friendly opinions.
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Workaccount2 ◴[13 Jul 25 13:15 UTC] No.44550230[source]▶
Nothing can compete with the ad model + ad blocker.

The suckers can watch the ads, and we can ride for free. (And we can complain that the content progressively caters to the suckers and not us).

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1. baby ◴[13 Jul 25 13:45 UTC] No.44550425[source]▶
Did you notice that chrome removed the ad blocker extensions?
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2. bee_rider ◴[13 Jul 25 14:08 UTC] No.44550571[source]▶
Google is also getting pretty aggressive about blocking people with ad blockers from YouTube. I think it is great. I ad-block everywhere, but if people don’t want me around for that reason, that’s their right. If I wanted to watch short videos, I’d actually have to become a paying customer somewhere!
3. phendrenad2 ◴[13 Jul 25 20:59 UTC] No.44553680[source]▶
Ad blockers still work in Chrome
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4. baby ◴[16 Jul 25 10:46 UTC] No.44580738[source]▶
They just sunset the most popular extension, not sure what people actually use now