I've taken the position that if something is too expensive without ads, it's too expensive for me.
I've taken the position that if something is too expensive without ads, it's too expensive for me. My life is blissfully, nearly entirely, ad free. The only downside is I'm an alien on my own planet, blind to the continuous swamp of advertising everyone around me lives in.
Posted by svachalek on Nov 3, 2025, 5:31 PM
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- I got tired of the price hikes of the ad free netflix and finally canceled.
- >This is pathological.
- 1) No, but the tracking needed for targeted ads is also behind a consent wall.
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- > Users don’t care whether the code was written by AI or by hand That's true, but they care deeply about the consequences of that: > ab...
- There's a part of the tech industry that uses what I would call dark influencer techniques.
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I got tired of the price hikes of the ad free netflix and finally canceled.
>This is pathological.
1) No, but the tracking needed for targeted ads is also behind a consent wall.
The attention economy is real, your eyes have value that is surprisingly high, and buying out that attention so you can have a pure you-c...
> Users don’t care whether the code was written by AI or by hand That's true, but they care deeply about the consequences of that: > ab...
There's a part of the tech industry that uses what I would call dark influencer techniques.
Author here.
You can either have AI be honest or AI become a marketing tool.
I've taken the position that if something is too expensive without ads, it's too expensive for me.
I've taken the position that if something is too expensive without ads, it's too expensive for me. My life is blissfully, nearly entirely, ad free. The only downside is I'm an alien on my own planet, blind to the continuous swamp of advertising everyone around me lives in.
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