How else am I gonna have a neat.af domain tho

Nah, they know what they’re doing.

I honestly doubt that. The average user doesn’t care about this, they probably don’t even know what “sideloading” means.

I’m also not gonna go out and buy an iPhone just because sideloading is an option now. Not saying no one will, it just won’t be enough to matter.

Always has been

It’s literally talking about the cookie blocker specifically though, not the adblocker itself

We buy shows that last a few months

You might be, I’ve had my shoes for years now.

If you’re buying shitty shoes, that’s on you and you’re a part of the very problem you’re complaining about.

If you’re talking about we as in the people, do you think that somehow magically cutting marketing would get rid of shitty products? That’s not how it works, maybe garbage like Supreme wouldn’t exist but that’s just a tiny piece of the pie

I suggest you read my comment again.

I’m not saying that the world won’t change, just that there’s no point trying to push for something like straight up socialism.

Push for socialized healthcare, then push for more social housing etc.

By applying the pressure in one spot, you might actually be able to achieve anything instead of just screaming at a computer monitor all your life

The world is capitalist and it’s not changing anytime soon.

Meaning, whatever your ideology is, it’s a waste of your and everyone elses time.

Adapt it to reality and push for smaller changes, a big one ain’t happening.

Ah of course, the “everything I hear about is bad” bias.

There’s an insane amount of small businesses out there, have a look at your friendly government’s statostics.

You know how these small businesses start? Often by telling friends and family about them (marketing), posting ads on the local notice board (marketing), having a damn logo on the door (marketing).

People have to know you exist, else they can only come across your shop by mistake, and no way you’re surviving a week like that.

All of these places would fail without any sort of marketing. Concentrating the power into the hands of established players.

Whatever you stand for, it doesn’t work.

So you’re hating on the 3000 assholes who’ve already cornered the market and now you want a world where new companies possibly founded by someone no-as-assholish are doomed to stay unknown and fail?

People will keep choosing what they know, if you don’t allow new players to enter the market, these old massive conglomerates will keep on growing, keep on consuming the competition.

It’s a hyperbole, but only a small one.

What about a thing that would actually change your life for some reason?

Would you prefer not knowing about it?

Of course there’s no reason for the 76th brand of chicken sandwich, but that’s also not what I’m talking about at all.

Marketing itself is fine and a healthy tool for growth, showing ads into people’s eyeholes every chance you get is not.

There’s different types of marketing.

One type is awareness marketing, which is exactly the type that’s the furthest from “forcing shit down your throat”.

Then later, when you’re searching for something and see their name, your monkey brain will prefer the “familiar” option.

And tbh I do have to disagree with “people will come to you”, it’s really hard to grow if people don’t know you exist.

He won! The election was just rigged…

Oh wait wrong guy

And thunderbolt/usb3/usb4 M.2 enclosures exist and are quite cheap if you don’t have a slot in the laptop.

It’s a hate on not only DRM, but all paid services pretty much

Yeah that’s the whole point.

Yes is something non standard, it’s a pushed opinion making something seem bad even though everyone should make their own opinion.

The standard is green for yes, red for no.

The dev chose to flip this, consciously.

For “willingly visiting the site”, you can apply that to anything on the internet, don’t see a point there.

It’s because the dev behind the website pushes his anti-threads agenda onto you.

Red means bad.

Actually, they will, a part at least

It’s… a meme