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Online advertising is such a strange world.

Do I see it correctly, that half of the worlds' population (the ones without ad blockers) is paying the web for the other half (the ones with ad blockers)?

The amount of ads these days is so crazy that I think we might all be better off if there was a way to easily do micropayments instead.

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Unfortunately, even if you do not view any ads you still end up paying for them via inflated prices (to cover tha ad budget) when you buy from the companies running those ads.

At least you avoid the psychological manipulation though, which hopefully means you don't spend as much for things you don't need.

I would argue YouTube Premium is an easy way to do micropayments to the creators you watch.

This doesn't work out to be micro for someone who only watches YouTube rarely, but if you watch a reasonable amount it does.

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