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hunter

(38,870 posts)
10. Some people don't want to sell their stuff. That's okay.
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 10:44 PM
Apr 2020

I use uBlock Origin. The software's developer very explicitly wants it to be free. It's a political statement.

This is uBlock's manifesto

The user decides what web content is acceptable or not in their browser.
The uBlock project does not support Adblock Plus' "Acceptable Ads Manifesto", because the "Acceptable Ads" marketing campaign is really the business plan of a for-profit entity.

Users are best placed to know what is or is not acceptable to them. uBlock's sole purpose is to give users the means to enforce their own choices.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/MANIFESTO.md



There are sites I subscribe to so I don't have to see ads. For example, Democraticunderground.

There are sites I don't block ads on because I find their advertising interesting and well focused. These are mainly technical sites.

And there are sites I block entirely because I find their advertising offensive.

I feel the same about television. I don't watch any cable, satellite, or broadcast television so I never see television ads.

Netflix has no ads. It's $8.99 a month. Between that and Redbox I never run out of interesting television.

I have ZERO tolerance for any ads that move or make noise. uBlock Origin helps me avoid that crap and it's free. What's wrong with that?

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