Cory Doctorow on Nostr: After all, if you make the ads on your website sufficiently obnoxious, some fraction ...
After all, if you make the ads on your website sufficiently obnoxious, some fraction of your users will install an ad-blocker, and you will never earn another penny from them. Because no one in the history of ad-blockers has ever *uninstalled* an ad-blocker.m But once it's illegal to make an ad-blocker, there's no reason not to make the ads as disgusting, invasive, obnoxious as you can, to shift *all* the value from the end user to shareholders and executives.
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