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I've been blocking ads for so long that actually seeing them feels perverse (leminal.space)

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I use ad blockers and open source privacy focused software whenever I can but occasionally I have to use computers that don't belong to me or an older phone where my usual applications aren't installed and seeing all the advertisements just feels dirty and dystopian.

I think the worst ads are the text to speech ones that say "Download this app today". The unblinking energenic people saying you can make a living at home are probably a close second.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If it is that niche, it is not a self-sustaining business model (with the evidence for this being that they instead have to sell their users to third parties).

Perhaps it's just better left to die than to propagate an economic model that commoditizes human beings who aren't even part of the business?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

no, its a hobby community and its been running since at least 2014. There is a demand for it but only in that community.

So letting it die wouldn't be an option. It's not a ton of people but I can think of lots of communities that have like 300 ish people in them who would be fucking livid if that site went down.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And 300 people couldn't find the resources to keep a small server up? For the equivalent of $1 per month each the very first VPS provider I found on a search gives you more than enough horsepower to support that small a community. https://www.nexusone.com.au/products/services/hosted-servers/vps-virtual-dedicated-server-detail

That's the very first result I found.

And you need ads to support this!?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

No, only like two people run the site.

The groups I'm talking about are the people who use the site to buy and sell the clothes on there.