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All they do is complain, make special demands, then go on to block ads anyway. It makes it hard to care about those users.



Could've been different if web devs listened when they got told "your ads get overbearing, no one can even try to concentrate on the content anymore" - but they were greedy and ad blocking came about as self defense.


Seems that ad-blocking has made ads worse.


It's called an arms race for a reason




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