I don't see why a free market can't take care of this problem. Let the suppliers run their ads and if it's not profitable then let them fold. None of this "please stop using ad blockers our business model sucks and we need you to accept worse overall service so we can stay in business".
I don't really care that much either.
This is the most important thing imo. Some people just don't care (not saying it's a bad thing). Others do so to each their own.
It's gotten to such an extreme that some websites are nothing more than ad delivery mechanisms under the concept that "ads allow us to provide you quality content for free", which, under the hood, is just a shitty business model that doesn't work for consumers. I've seen websites that literally copy paste the content 2 or 3 times to extend the word count and have nonsensicle, out of order sentences that don't contain any information. There are also websites that have incorrect information, which are also published with the sole purpose of serving ads to generate revenue, which imo is worse. Just another way that capitalism is making our world more shitty.
With some games you need to pirate them if you don't want a Russian nesting doll of launchers and accounts
I'm not a gamer but is this really true? I thought it was the other way around, that pirated games were the ones filled with malware.
"Allow install from unknown source" permission for f-droid, and verifying the f-droid download's checksum are too complicated/involved for many people, especially when compared to what another commenter rightly called "aggressively placed" spyware-laden alternatives.
According to this article from The Guardian, this kind of thing has been happening in US law enforcement for decades.
Hacked police files show US law enforcement agencies for decades received analysis of incidents in the Israel-Palestine conflict directly from the Israeli Defense Forces and Israeli thinktanks, training on domestic “Muslim extremists” from pro-Israel non-profits, and surveilled social media accounts of pro-Palestine activists in the US.
“It’s frustrating that we’ve developed this national law enforcement intelligence-sharing network that basically takes disinformation straight from the rightwing social media fever swamps and puts it out under the imprimatur of law enforcement intelligence, so it becomes an amplifier of disinformation rather than a corrective to that disinformation,” German said.
Not to mention Israel's reach into US legislature.
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. USA very obviously doesn't gaf what happens to Palestinians. Israel already sold the rights to drill for Palestinian natural gas off the coast of Gaza so whatever happens after you run out of fucks to give is how the US government feels about Gaza.
What's fashbaiting?
What happened to the energy of "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."?
This was the Reddit front page a day or 2 ago:
Isn't the underlying situation just boilerplate conservative greed?
I hope the government comes to their senses.
(Americans looking on like "what in tarnation does the gubmint have to do with the doctors?!")
While traffic has not changed substantially, many users report the quality of content and the kinds of posts that are surfaced on user homepages now seem different.
This was on the front page a day or 2 ago, right near the top:
It seemed... inorganic. And I'm not sure what the gold trim is on those posts. Other posts didn't have them.
Sacred tree of life from Norse mythology? What?