I often find it funny when people complain about ads on torrent sites.
I think this speaks of a culture that thinks they should get everything for free.
50 years ago, if you wanted to read the news,you paid for it.
Today , we complain about want ads can the free content providers give us. Yet, we wonder why publishers provide such crap content, because their Main focus is pleasing free users with what ad they will like.
I’m not surprised by how many people speak of micropayment for articles, but no one does it.
The more we block legitment ads, the more crap we’ll see.
The cost to behave nicely becomes too much.
Hacker News has been an amazing place, but more and more things like “evil” for people pushing ads is insane. Evil is hilter, but now you’re comparing you’re as provider in the same way?
Ps not in ads, just a realist.